Presently Beryl spoke again, still looking back.
"Don't you think, Mr.Carleton, this joke has gone far enough?
You have demonstrated what you _could_ do, if--" I risked both our lives to glance at her.

"This joke," I said, "is going to Osage.

I want to marry you, and you know it.

The Lord and this car willing, I'm going to.

Still, if you really have been deceived in my intentions, and insist upon going back, I shall stop, of course, and give you back to your father.