It is simply that either he is not the man we all think him or you are acting in a way unbecoming a Zane.

I do not purpose to have this state of affairs continue.

Now, enough of this beating about the bush." Betty had seen the Colonel angry more than once, but never with her.
It was quite certain she had angered him and she forgot her own resentment.

Her heart had warmed with her brother's praise of Clarke.

Then as she remembered the past she felt a scorn for her weakness and such a revulsion of feeling that she cried out passionately: "He is a trifler.