I gave him my hand, nevertheless, and told him if he took me it must be with the consequences." Mr.Napoleon Bowles announced visitors, and this put an end to the conversation.

The reader must know that this was not a voluntary yielding on the part of Mattie to the wishes of her mother.

She only adopted this course as part of a plan by which she hoped to gain time, during which Tite might return, and thus afford her the means of averting a dilemma into which her mother was forcing her..