You did entirely too much planning, and investigating, and calculating; and when, at last, you did come to the conclusion to propose to her, you did not do it so much of your own accord, as because you found that another man would be likely to get her, if you did not make a pretty quick move yourself.

And as to that acceptance, I don't think anything of it at all.

I believe she was very angry at Junius because he consented to bring your messages, when he ought to have been his own messenger, and that she gave him that answer just to rack his soul with agony.

I don't believe she ever dreamed that he would take it to you.

And, to tell the simple truth, I believe, from what I saw of her that morning, that she was thinking very little of you, and a great deal of him.