"No, I won't. That's final."
"Once again I ask you, Alice."
"And once again I refuse!" cried Alice, stamping her foot, for she was beginning to lose patience at last.
The two Chinamen stood grinning at each other.
If they did not understand English they at least must have had a pretty good idea of what was going on.
They seemed to be highly amused.
"And now for the third time I ask you," continued the doctor, "will you marry me?"
"Never!" cried Alice. "Not if you were the last man on earth!"
"Then that settles it, Alice Montgomery!" he said, sternly. "The door you enter shall be the door of death!"
He unlocked it and threw it open.