"Nay," she reproved him.

"If you are so headstrong, I shall leave you." "If you do, ma'am.

I vow here, as I am, I hope, a gentleman, that I shall go home to-day, and on foot." "You would kill yourself," she told him.
"I might kill myself for less, and yet be justified." She looked her despair of him.

"What must I do to make you reasonable ?" "Set me the example by being reasonable yourself, and let there be no more of this wild talk of leaving me the very moment you are come.
Leduc, a chair for Mistress Winthrop!" he commanded, as though chairs abounded in a garden nook.

But Leduc, the diplomat, had effaced himself.
She laughed at his grand air, and, herself, drew forward the stool that had been Leduc's, and sat down.