I gave him no offence.
What right has he to assume that I was not engaged in domestic duties while he sat talking with you?
He said that he had an engagement in New York.

Very well; there was a sufficient reason for his sudden departure; and I accept the reason.

But why does he remain away?
If simply because I preferred a seat in the arbor to one in the portico, why, the whole thing is so unmanly, that I can have no patience with it.

Write to him, and humor a whim like this! No, no--Irene Delancy is not made of the right stuff.

He went from me, and he must return again.