She was frightened, but did not loose her self-command.
'Sir, you had now better let me return home.

Miss Gwynne will wonder what has become of me.

It is time that she should be ready--that you, sir, should be ready.

What will she think and say ?' 'I care not; nothing shall turn me from my purpose.

You shall not leave this wood until you promise.' 'Then I shall never leave it, sir; and if you persist in detaining me, I will make known to every one, how a gentleman can demean himself to a poor, unprotected girl, who has no friend near her but her God.