What is the meaning of your words, Mistress Claire?
Are you shameless, forgetting the pledge between us ?" She turned her face toward him as a queen might, her head held high, her cheeks flaming.
"You have had your answer once for all, Captain Grant.

There is no pledge between us." "But, daughter," broke in the Colonel, still bewildered by this sudden explosion.

"I can scarcely comprehend; surely it was understood that you were affianced to this son of an old neighbor." "Understood, yes, by those who kindly arranged the affair, but the fact that I might possess a heart of my own was entirely overlooked.

As a child I permitted you to plan my future without protest.

I am a woman now; I have been out in the world; the war has taken all girlhood from me.