This is probably the last time I shall have the chance to talk openly with you, and I implore you to listen to me.

I want nothing for myself If I knew I should never see you again, I would still say the same thing.

Leave Washington! Leave it now!--at once!--without giving more than twenty-four hours' notice! Leave it without letting Mr.
Ratcliffe see you again in private! Come back next winter if you please, and then accept him if you think proper.

I only pray you to think long about it and decide when you are not here." Madeleine's eyes flashed, and she threw aside her embroidery with an impatient gesture: "No! Mr.Carrington! I will not be dictated to! I will carry out my own plans! I do not mean to marry Mr.Ratcliffe.If I had meant it, I should have done it before now.

But I will not run away from him or from myself.