But he found it was quite impossible to maintain any such reticence toward one in her excited and peremptory mood.

He was forced to admit the fact of the appointment.
"Why didn't you make it in the forenoon ?" she demanded.
"What for?
It is only a difference of a few hours," he replied.
"And don't you think a few hours is anything to me ?" she cried, bursting into hysterical tears.
"You must not be so confident," he expostulated.

"It scares me to see you so when you are so likely to be disappointed.

Even the doctor said he could not promise success.

It would depend on many things." "What is the use of telling me that ?" she said, suddenly becoming very calm.