It is ridiculous.' 'Then I won't be alone with you any more.

Unkind, to wound me so!' She laughed at her own absurdity but persisted.
'Come, Elfie, let's make it up and be friends.' 'Say you would save me, then, and let him drown.' 'I would save you--and him too.' 'And let him drown.

Come, or you don't love me!' she teasingly went on.
'And let him drown,' he ejaculated despairingly.
'There; now I am yours!' she said, and a woman's flush of triumph lit her eyes.
'Only one earring, miss, as I'm alive,' said Unity on their entering the hall.
With a face expressive of wretched misgiving, Elfride's hand flew like an arrow to her ear.
'There!' she exclaimed to Stephen, looking at him with eyes full of reproach.
'I quite forgot, indeed.

If I had only remembered!' he answered, with a conscience-stricken face.
She wheeled herself round, and turned into the shrubbery.

Stephen followed.
'If you had told me to watch anything, Stephen, I should have religiously done it,' she capriciously went on, as soon as she heard him behind her.
'Forgetting is forgivable.' 'Well, you will find it, if you want me to respect you and be engaged to you when we have asked papa.' She considered a moment, and added more seriously, 'I know now where I dropped it, Stephen.