She made an affirmative answer with an unreasonable impatience of tone and manner which would have warned an older and more experienced man to give her time before he spoke again.

Horace was young, and weary of the suspense that he had endured in the other room.

He unwisely pressed her with another question.
"Has Lady Janet said anything to you--" She turned on him angrily before he could finish the sentence.

"You have tried to make her hurry me into marrying you," she burst out.

"I see it in your face!" Plain as the warning was this time, Horace still failed to interpret it in the right way.