"I've chosen.

And I'm well content." She gave him a last tantalizing look and went out on the veranda, to go along it to the outdoor stairway.

Arkwright gazed after her through a fierce conflict of emotions.

Was she really in earnest?
Could it be possible that Josh Craig had somehow got a hold over her?
"Or, is it that she doesn't trust me, thinks I'd back down if she were to throw him over and rely on me ?" No, there was something positively for Craig in her tone and expression.

She was really intending to marry him.