'Here's your book, Madame Cordova.' 'No,' Margaret answered with a little burst of indignation, 'I don't want it.

I won't take it from you!' 'What's the matter now ?' asked Mr.Van Torp without the least change of manner.

'It's your friend Mr.Lushington's latest, you know, and it won't be out for ten days.

I thought you would like to see it, so I got an advance copy before it was published.' He held the volume out to her, but she would not even look at it, nor answer him.
'How you hate me! Don't you, Madame Cordova ?' Margaret still said nothing.

She was considering how she could best get rid of him.