And then, you know, Kitty dearest, he had saved my life, and so--" "And so ?" "Well, I told him I didn't know, and was shockingly confused, and then we got up quite a scene.

He swore that he would go to Mexico, though why I can't imagine; and I really wish he had; but I was frightened at the time, and I cried; and then he got worse, and I told him not to; whereupon he went into raptures, and began to call me no end of names--spooney names, you know; and I--oh, I did _so_ want him to stop!--I think I must have promised him all that he wanted; and when I got home I was frightened out of my poor little wits, and cried all night." "Poor dear child!" exclaimed Mrs.Willoughby, with tender sympathy.
"What a wretch!" "No, he wasn't a wretch at all; he was awfully handsome, only, you know, he--was--so--_aw_fully persevering, and kept _so_ at my heels; but I hurried home from Brighton, and thought I had got rid of him." "And hadn't you ?" "Oh dear, no," said Minnie, mournfully.

"On the day after my arrival there came a letter; and, you know, I had to answer it; and then another; and so it went on--" "Oh, Minnie! why didn't you tell me before ?" "How could I when you were off in that horrid Scotland?
I _always_ hated Scotland." "You might have told papa." "I couldn't.

I think papa's cruel _too_.

He doesn't care for me at all.