"You won't let me be anything else, I assure you I would be amiability itself if you would permit.

Well now, which is it to be?
You say you don't want to marry anyone.

That, we have seen, is only a figure of speech.

But since the red-haired doctor is not wanting you and I am--" "You are wrong!" she broke in, with sudden heat.
Some hidden fire within her had kindled into flame at his words; it burned with a fierce strength.

For the first time she challenged him without any sense of fear.
He looked at her in unfeigned astonishment.