This, however, she refused to do.

Then she had her father's angry opposition to brave.

But she remained firm.
"He will cover you with infamy, if you dare to persevere in this mad opposition," he said.

And she answered-- "The infamy may recoil upon his own head.

I am innocent--I will not be such a traitor to virtue as to let silence declare me guilty." There was a pause, now, for a few weeks.