I can't imagine any man in love with such a girl as you not being one or the other all the while." But the tone was a little, a very little, colder than the words, and her quick ear caught the difference.
"What's the matter?
Are you vexed about anything?
What have I done ?" she asked, in a tone of anxious deprecation which no other person but Harrison Cordis had ever heard from her lips.
"You have done nothing," he answered, passing his arm round her waist in a momentary embrace of reassurance.

"It is I that am ill-tempered.

I couldn't help thinking from the way this Burr pursues you that there must have been something in the story about your having been engaged, after all." "It is not true.

I never was engaged.

I couldn't bear him.