Here! I had no time! Why, Elisabeth, I was hurrying--I was mad!--I had a right to offer you these things.

I have still the right to ask you why you did not take them?
Will you not take them now ?" She put my hand away from her gently.

"Keep them," she said, "for the owner of that other wedding gift--the one which I received." Now I broke out.

"Good God! How can I be held to blame for the act of a drunken friend?
You know Jack Dandridge as well as I do myself.

I cautioned him--I was not responsible for his condition." "It was not that decided me." "You could not believe it was _I_ who sent you that accursed shoe which belonged to another woman." "He said it came from you.