She remembers Richard Wardour again at those words.
"Mind!" she says, "nobody is to know we are engaged till I permit you to mention it.

Remember that!" He promises to remember it.

His arm tries to wind round her once more.

No! She is mistress of herself; she can positively dismiss him now--after she has let him kiss her! "Go!" she says.

"I want to see Mrs.Crayford.Find her! Say I am here, waiting to speak to her.