"Onions?"
"Very like—very like. But come on, my dear—come on. Easy does it! Always remember that whenever you gets into any fix. Easy does it!"
Did Arabella think the colonel would run after her and say something? Yes she did; but he came not. Did she think he would be loath to part with her upon such terms as they had seemed to part? Yes, yes. Surely he could not let her go without some kinder, softer, word that he had last spoken to her? But he did. He only watched her with his eyes; and when Sir Richard Blunt, who, it would appear, knew something of the colonel's feelings, said to him—
"All right, I suppose, Colonel Jeffery?"
He only shook his head.
"What, anything amiss?"
"She has rejected me!"
"Oh, is that all?"
"All? And enough too."
"Phoo! She was sure to do that. Don't you know the old adage, that—