You cannot put such a slight upon my son, or your father, or all these people, any longer.
You do not think what you are doing, Dorothy." Mrs.Gordon's even, weighty voice softened to motherly appeal in the closing words.

Dorothy remained quite silent and motionless.

Then Burr gave a great sigh of impatient misery, and strode across to Dorothy, and bent low over her, touching her curls with his lips, and whispered.

She did not stir.

"Won't you, Dorothy ?" he said, gently, then quite aloud; and then again, "Have you forgotten what you promised me, Dorothy ?" and still again, "Are you sick?
Have I offended you in any way?
Can't you tell me, Dorothy ?" At length, when Dorothy persisted in her silence, he stood back from her and spoke with his head proudly raised.