He must wear such beautiful waistcoats! Don't you think I had better see him before our engagement is quite, quite final ?" But Frank would not smile.

In fact, like all angry persons, he found fresh matter for offence in every sentence.

She did not consider the engagement as quite final: thus he chose to understand her playful speech.

He would not answer.

She spoke again: "Dear Frank, you are not angry with me, are you?
It is nonsense to think that we are to go about the world, picking and choosing men and women as if they were fruit and we were to gather the best; as if there was not something in our own hearts which, if we listen to it conscientiously, will tell us at once when we have met the one of all others.