"I shall never see her! Never! And what is more," she continued, with the energy of one who believes her will to be equivalent to the accomplished fact, "you are going to give up, yes, and entirely forget, all those foolish things you have just been speaking of!" He gazed squarely back into her flashing eyes.

His face had tightened, and at that moment there was a remarkable likeness between the two faces, usually so dissimilar.
"Pardon me, mother; you are mistaken," he said quietly.

"I am going to give up nothing." "What, you defy me ?" she gasped.
"I am not defying you.

I tried to tell you in as pleasant a way as I could what my plans are.

But everything I said, I am going to do." "Then--then--" At first the words would not come forth; she stood trembling, clutching the back of her chair.