Then, about a month before the date fixed for our marriage, he met Olivia Quainton, fell in love with her, and broke off our engagement a week before our wedding-day." "Well, of all the caddish tricks!" cried Mr.Manley.
"You can imagine how furious I was.

And I wasn't going to stand it--not from Loudwater, at any rate.

I had learnt a good deal more about him in the eleven weeks we were engaged, and, naturally, I wasn't pleased with what I had learnt.

I set out to make myself very disagreeable.

I saw him and did make myself very disagreeable.