"I remembered it," she answered, dropping her eyelids.
"You haven't given me my answer."
"Did you expect me to come to you with it?" she asked, fencing to gain time.
"Of course not; but I have come for it."
"I am not worth so much trouble," she said.
"Is that my answer?"
"Certainly it isn't," she replied. "But why must you be in such haste about it?"
"Haste about it!" he repeated. "I should think I had waited long enough. If I am not worth answering, I cannot be worth marrying."
His indignation influenced Patty in his favor; but alas! his last word made her shudder.
"Oh! It isn't that," she ambiguously exclaimed.