For goodness' sake get up, and don't be a goose!" The young baronet sprung to his feet, furious with mortification and rage.
"Miss Hunsden--" "Oh, don't!" cried Harriet, in a second paroxysm.

"Don't make me rupture an artery.

Love me ?--worship me?
Why, you ridiculous thing! you haven't known me two days altogether!" He turned away without speaking a word.
"And then you're engaged to Lady Louise! Every one says so, and I am sure it looks like it." "I am not engaged to Lady Louise." He said those words huskily, and he could say no more.
Miss Hunsden tried to look grave, but her mouth twitched.

The sense of the ludicrous overcame her sense of decorum, and again she laughed until the tears stood in her eyes.
"Oh, I shall die!" in a faint whisper.

"My sides ache.