Oh!" he clenched his fists and shook them a moment at his sides.
"Very well," she said.

"In that case I must ask you to marry me." "You ?" He was thunderstruck.
"What alternative do you leave me?
You say that I have destroyed my good name.

You must provide me with a new one.

At all costs I must become an honest woman.

Isn't that the phrase ?" "Don't!" he cried, and pain quivered in his voice.