"Not that it matters, since it is too late.

I am not going to allow you to draw back now.

You have gone too far.

All this winter you have allowed me to pay you conspicuous and marked attentions.

You have conveyed to me and to the world at large the impression that I had merely to speak in order to obtain your hand." "I doubt," said Etta, "whether the world at large is so deeply interested in the matter as you appear to imagine.