He followed her, and put forth all those powers of persuading and soothing, which had so often proved irresistible.

But this time it was in vain.

The insult was too savage, and his egotism too brutal, for honeyed phrases to blind her.
After enduring it a long time with a silent shudder, she turned and shook him fiercely off her like some poisonous reptile.
"Do you want me to kill you?
I'd liever kill myself for loving such a thing as THOU.

Go thy ways, man, and let me go mine." In her passion she dropped her cultivation for once, and went back to the THOU and THEE of her grandam.
He colored up and looked spiteful enough; but he soon recovered his cynical egotism, and went off whistling an operatic passage.
She crept to her lodgings, and buried her face in her pillow, and rocked herself to and fro for hours in the bitterest agony the heart can feel, groaning over her great affection wasted, flung into the dirt.
While she was thus, she heard a little commotion.

She came to the window and saw Falcon, exquisitely dressed, drive off in his dogcart, attended by the acclamations of eight boys.