A third time the shoulders did duty.
"I suppose Miss Chamberlain has been made aware of the state of affairs and is trying to give you a chance to apologize," she remarked.
"And I take the chance.—I apologize, Stephanie! most sincerely and humbly apologize."
"For what?"
"For anything I did or said that I shouldn't."
"That you shouldn't," she repeated.—"Who is to be the judge of what you shouldn't have done or said? That was just the point on which we split—you thought you should and I thought you shouldn't."
"I am willing to let you be the judge," he replied.
"Then you confess that you went beyond all bounds?"
"I will."
"And were arbitrary and dictatorial?"