Come, Billie, let's kiss and make up.

What! Still angry?
Surely you are not in earnest ?" "But I am--very much in earnest." "You mean to throw me down?
Now at the last moment, with all the fellows waiting in the next room ?" She had her hands freed, and with them held behind her, stood motionless facing him.
"Would you marry me against my wish ?" she asked.

"Would you hold me to a promise I regret having made?
I sent for you merely to tell you the truth, to throw myself on your generosity.

I am scarcely more than a girl, Captain Le Gaire, and acknowledge I have done wrong, have been deceived in my own feelings.

You have my word--the word of a Hardy--and we keep our pledges.