Clara Burnham! I insist on the truth.

Are you false to me ?" She resented that searching question with a woman's keen sense of the insult that is implied in doubting her to her face.
"Mr.Wardour! you forget yourself when you call me to account in that way.

I never encouraged you.

I never gave you promise or pledge--" He passionately interrupted her before she could say more.
"You have engaged yourself in my absence.

Your words own it; your looks own it! You have engaged yourself to another man!" "If I _have_ engaged myself, what right have you to complain of it ?" she answered firmly.