"If you will listen to me and will help me by acting as I suggest, we may between us bring your father to our way of thinking, and I may still be able to retain his friendship." "What is your great plan ?" asked Dorothy, in a voice such as one might expect to hear from a piece of ice.
"I have formed no plan as yet," I replied, "although I have thought of several.

Until we can determine upon one, I suggest that you permit me to say to your father that I have asked you to be my wife, and that the subject has come upon you so suddenly that you wish a short time,--a fortnight or a month--in which to consider your answer." "That is but a ruse, I say, to gain time," she answered contemptuously.

"I do not wish one moment in which to consider.

You already have my answer.

I should think you had had enough.