I cannot." "You must accept the dinner, but I don't see that you need make the speech," said Annie, who was herself aghast over such extremity of torture.
"I will not," said Margaret.

She was very pale and her lips were a tight line.

Her eyes were opaque and lustreless.

She was in reality suffering what a less egotistical nature could not even imagine.

All her life had Margaret Edes worshipped and loved Margaret Edes.