"That's what you say.

But _he_ never told you so." "He has told me so twenty times; he repeats it every time that we are alone together!" "Yes, just as one says it to a little girl by way of amusing her.

But he has never told you that he meant to marry you." "He told it me the last time he came.

And it's settled.

I'm simply waiting for him to get his mother's consent and make his formal offer." "You lie, you lie, you wretched girl! You simply want to make me suffer, and you lie, you lie!" Eve's grief at last burst forth in that cry of protest.