“I––I wish you’d go away,” she sobbed.
“You don’t understand!” he answered fiercely. “I’m not going away. I love you, and 273 I’ve come to get you. I won’t go away until you come with me.”
She rose to her feet, her back toward him.
“Go away!” she cried.
Then she ran into the house, leaving him standing there dazed.
CHAPTER XXX
DON EXPLAINS
It seemed that, in spite of her business training and the unsentimental outlook on life upon which she had rather prided herself, Sally Winthrop did not differ greatly from other women. Shut up in her room, a deep sense of humiliation overwhelmed her. He had asked this other girl to marry him, and when she refused he had come to her! He thought as lightly of her as that––a mere second choice when the first was made impossible. He had no justification for that. This other had sent him to her––doubtless with a smile of scorn upon her pretty lips.