Yes, though I have no business to do it, and you have no right--none at all--to make me do it, I will tell you the truth, because I cannot bear that you should not believe me.

Mr.Davies did want me to marry him and I refused him.

I put him off for a while; I did this because I knew that if I did not he would go to my father.

It was cowardly, but my father would make my life wretched----" and again she gave a half-choked sob.
Much has been said and written about the effect produced upon men by the sight of a lady in, or on the border line of tears, and there is no doubt that this effect is considerable.

Man being in his right mind is deeply moved by such a spectacle, also he is frightened because he dreads a scene.