Mr.Franklin had no choice but to submit.

He turned away in anger--and left us.
I had stood there listening to them, all in a tremble; not knowing whom to suspect, or what to think next.

In the midst of my confusion, two things, however, were plain to me.

First, that my young lady was, in some unaccountable manner, at the bottom of the sharp speeches that had passed between them.

Second, that they thoroughly understood each other, without having previously exchanged a word of explanation on either side.
"Mr.Betteredge," says the Sergeant, "you have done a very foolish thing in my absence.