He urged her, and she gave an evidently reluctant consent.

While the gentlemen went to make arrangement for carriages, the ladies retired to their rooms.
Miss Carman accompanied the bride.

She had noticed her manner, and felt slightly troubled at her state of mind, knowing, as she did, her impulsive character and blind self-will when excited by opposition.
"I don't want to ride to-day!" exclaimed Irene, throwing herself into a chair as soon as she had entered her room; "and Hartley knows that I do not." Her cheeks burned and her eyes sparkled.
"If it will give him pleasure to ride out," said Rose, in a gentle soothing manner, "you cannot but have the same feeling in accompanying him." "I beg your pardon!" replied Irene, briskly.

"If I don't want to ride, no company can make the act agreeable.

Why can't people learn to leave others in freedom?
If Hartley had shown the same unwillingness to join this riding party that I manifested, do you think I would have uttered a second word in favor of going?
No.