You must not break my heart." Humphreys had lost his cue, and every word of tenderness he spoke made his case more hopeless.
"I never can marry you--let me go in," she said, brushing past him.

Then she remembered that her door was fast on the inside.

She had climbed out the window.

She turned back, and he saw his advantage.
"I can not release you.

Take time to think before you ask it.