Roberta listened to him in silence until he had finished, and then she rose to her feet, and her manner was such that Junius rose also.

"Junius Keswick," she said, "you have deliberately come to me, and offered me the hand of another man in marriage." "Not that," said Junius, "I merely came to explain----." "Do not split hairs," she interrupted, "you did exactly that.

You came to me because he could not come himself, and offered him to me.

Now go to him from me, and tell him that I accept him." And, with that, she swept out of the room, and came down stairs no more until bonneted, and accompanied by Miss Annie, she hurried to the front door, and entered the carriage which was there waiting for her, with Peggy by the driver.

With some quick good-byes and kisses to Annie, but never a word to Junius, or anybody else, she drove away.
If Junius Keswick had been nervous and anxious that morning, as he strode about the house, waiting for an opportunity to speak to Miss March, it may well be supposed that Lawrence Croft, shut up in his little room at the end of the yard, would be more so.