Have you had to refuse any one at Santa Barbara?
Perhaps you didn't refuse.

You have told me so little of what was going on!" "That isn't fair to me, Mary.

I explained to you that I wished to give you a pleasant surprise.

To plan a pleasure for you was not unsisterly, was it?
I haven't Miss Wildmere's ambition for miscellaneous conquests.

Why should I write about men for whom I cared nothing and toward whom my manner should have made my spoken negative unnecessary ?" "Other girls would.