Though her mother prayed and sobbed, implored her, and almost cursed her, still she was firm.

She had given her word to the man, and her heart, and she would not go back.

'Yes, papa.

It is too late now,' she said, when her father coming from his wife, once suggested to her that even yet it was not too late.

'Of course I shall marry him,' she said to Mrs.Robert, almost with indignation, when Mrs.Robert on one occasion almost broke down in her purpose.
'Dear aunt, indeed, indeed, you need not interfere,' she said to Mrs.
Nicholas.