That is so, I think ?" She was silent, taken by surprise.
"I thought so," he continued.

"You see, I am not so easy to hoodwink.
And now I am going to act up to my villain's _role_ and break that engagement of yours--which is no engagement.

To put it quite shortly and comprehensibly--I am going to marry you myself." She stared at him in gasping astonishment.

"You!" she said.

"You!" He laughed into her eyes of horror.