I am sorry that I have gone too far, but I reserve to myself the right of retracing my footsteps wherever and whenever I please.

I am sorry I conveyed to you or to any one else the impression that you had only to speak in order to obtain my hand, and I can only conclude that your overweening vanity has led you into a mistake which I will be generous enough to hold my tongue about." The diplomatist was for a moment taken aback.
"Mais--" he exclaimed, with indignant arms outspread; and even in his own language he could find nothing to add to the expressive monosyllable.
"I think you had better go," said Etta quietly.

She went toward the fire-place and rang the bell.
M.de Chauxville took up his hat and gloves.
"Of course," he said coldly, his voice shaking with suppressed rage, "there is some reason for this.

There is, I presume, some one else--some one has been interfering.

No one interferes with me with impunity.