By what authority do you constitute yourself an intermediary for the purpose of bringing about a marriage which you are so good as to consider would be to my pecuniary interest?
Do you not know that such a matter is one which the woman concerned, the woman whose happiness and self-respect are at stake, alone can judge of?
I have nothing more to say except this.

I said just now that you had been guilty of what would in most people be an impertinence.

Well, I will add something.

In this case, Mr.Bingham, there are circumstances which make it--a cruel insult!" She stopped speaking, then suddenly, without the slightest warning, burst into passionate weeping.

As she did so, the first rush of the storm passed over them, winnowing the air as with a thousand eagles' wings, and was lost on the moaning depths beyond.
The light went out of the sky.