Do you mean to tell me that you have come here to threaten me with deserting me ?" "You had better hear me." "I don't choose to hear a word more after what you have said,--unless it be in the way of an apology, or retracting your most injurious accusation." "I have said nothing to retract," said Lord Fawn solemnly.
"Then I will not hear another word from you.

I have friends, and you shall see them." Lord Fawn, who had thought a great deal upon the subject, and had well understood that this interview would be for him one of great difficulty, was very anxious to induce her to listen to a few further words of explanation.

"Dear Lizzie--" he began.
"I will not be addressed, sir, in that way by a man who is treating me as you are doing," she said.
"But I want you to understand me." "Understand you! You understand nothing yourself that a man ought to understand.

I wonder that you have the courage to be so insolent.

If you knew what you were doing, you would not have the spirit to do it." Her words did not quite come home to him, and much of her scorn was lost upon him.