But at least we were then pretty much alike, and as good as each other.

And now, as soon as you have become suddenly rich, and, of course, the SUPERIOR, you rush down here to ask me to acknowledge it by accepting you!" "You know I never meant that, Miss Kitty," burst out Barker vehemently, but his protest was drowned in a rapid roulade from the young lady's fingers on the keys.

He sank back in his chair.
"Of course you never MEANT it," she said with an odd laugh; "but everybody will take it in that way, and you cannot go round to everybody in Boomville and make the pretty declaration you have just made to me.
Everybody will say I accepted you for your money; everybody will say it was a put-up job of my father's.

Everybody will say that you threw yourself away on me.

And I don't know but that they would be right.