And see how badly you are behaving to the beloved one!" She smiled again, with even more amusement than before, and continued her graceful way up the stairs.

He had turned away sore at heart.

She had not even thought it worth her while to make an appeal to him.

If she had! He told himself that even then, if she had said but one word, he would have thrown up everything, even his _honour_, and gone with her to the ends of the earth.

But she had not said that word--she had not cared--_sufficiently_.
* * * * And now it is indeed all over! They have come back from the church--Tita just as she is every day, without a cloud on her brow, and laughing with everybody, and telling everybody, without the least disguisement, that she is so _glad_ she is married, because now Uncle George can never claim her again.