"You must know that I am engaged to Miss Saxon!" "You will never marry her--never!" cried Maraquito passionately; "oh, cruel man, can you not see that I am dying of love for you." "Maraquito--" "If I were not chained to this couch," she said between her teeth, "I should go after her and throw vitriol in her face.

I would give her cause to repent having lured you from me with her miserable doll's face.

Pah! the minx!" Cuthbert grew really angry.

"How dare you speak like this ?" he said.
"If you were able to attack Miss Saxon in the vile way you say, I should show you no mercy." "What would you do--what would you do ?" she panted.
"Put you in jail.

That sort of thing may do abroad but we don't allow it here.