I think my idea was to show him that I could take care of myself.

So then I teased and teased, and Ethel begged and prayed, and she cried, and I laughed; and there stood the stranger, seeing it all, until at last I started off, and ran up to the top, you know." Mrs.Willoughby shuddered, and took her sister's hand.
"There was no end of smoke, you know, and it was awfully unpleasant, and I got to the top I don't know how, when suddenly I fainted." Minnie paused for a moment, and looked at her sister with a rueful face.
"Well, now, dear, darling, the very--next--thing--that I remember is this, and it's horrid: I felt awful jolts, and found myself in the arms of a great, big, horrid man, who was running down the side of the mountain with dreadfully long jumps, and I felt as though he was some horrid ogre carrying poor me away to his den to eat me up.

But I didn't say one word.

I wasn't much frightened.

I felt provoked.