A dreadful, deliberate silence engulfed her words.
Coldly Johnny's slow voice broke it.
"Who said anything about marriage?" defiantly he demanded. "I never asked you to marry me."
CHAPTER VIII
JOHNNY BECOMES EXPLICIT
"I never asked you to marry me," he repeated very stiffly.
The crash of all her worlds sounded in Maria Angelina's ears. An aghast bewilderment flooded her soul.
Pitiably she stammered, "Why it—it was understood, was it not? You cared—you—you——"
She could not put into words the memories that beset her stricken consciousness. But the cheeks that had felt his kiss flamed with a sudden burning scarlet.