That you should get involved in roadside brawls with competitors for the possession of the minx is worse yet.

Worst of all that you should advertise by all these doings, to all our world, your infatuation for such a creature and your greater interest in her than in me.

I am indignant that I have considered marrying a suitor capable of such vileness, of such fatuity, of such folly." I was like a sailboat taken all aback by a sudden change of wind.

I could not believe my ears.
"I never took the slightest interest in Marcia," I protested, "except to keep my uncle from marrying her, after he set her free.

She made eyes at me also, of course, for she made eyes at every marriageable man within reach.