"Please don't speak of it."
"But Elizabeth—"
"I am perfectly furious, and I am very disgusted. I never want to see
Blair again!"
At which Blair's sister lifted her head.
"Of course, he ought not to have spoken to you, but I think you forget that he loved you long before David did."
"Nonsense!" Elizabeth cried out impatiently.
But Nannie's tears touched her. "Nannie, I can't see him, and I won't; but I'll come and see you when he is not there." At which Nannie flared again.
"If you are angry at my brother, and can't forgive just a momentary, a passing feeling,—which, after all, Elizabeth, is a compliment; at least everybody says it's a compliment to have a man say he loves you—"
"Not if you're engaged to another man!" Elizabeth burst in, scarlet to her temples.
"Blair loved you before David thought of you."