You've said you'll marry me.

I don't want to hear anything about the other men who were.

I'm the man who is.
And I'm going to drive you straight back to Mallow and tell everybody about it.

Then I'll feel sure of you." Faced by the irrevocableness of her action, Nan was overtaken by dismay.

How recklessly, on the impulse of the moment, she had bartered her freedom away! She felt as though she were caught in the meshes of some net from which there was no escaping.