"In trouble" was not what you said, but that I had come when I had been in short frocks.

Short frocks! And you came to tell me that you loved me.

You thought, I suppose, that as I had refused one man, I would jump at the next that came along.

I wanted a man.

God! God! what have I done that such an affront should come upon me?
And come, too, from a hand that should have protected me if only in gratitude for my father's kindness!' She was eyeing him keenly, with eyes that in her unflinching anger took in everything with the accuracy of sun-painting.