"Why have you come here?
I supposed it would be my father." "Major Hardy told me how you were feeling; that he could do nothing for you--" "Did he understand I wished to confer with you ?" "No, but--" "You decided to invade my room without permission.

Do you not think you have persecuted me quite long enough ?" "Why do you say persecuted ?" "Because your acts have assumed that form, Lieutenant Galesworth.

You persist in seeking me after I have requested to be left alone." "Miss Hardy," and my eyes met hers, "has it ever occurred to you that you may be the one in the wrong, the one mistaken?
I am simply here to explain, to tell you the truth, and compel you to do justice." "Indeed! how compel?
With the revolver in your belt ?" "No; merely by a statement of facts, to be proven, if necessary, by the evidence of your father and Captain Bell.

I am not asking you to believe me, but surely they have no occasion for falsifying.

Why have you not listened to them ?" "Listened!" startled by my words.