"Do you know Mr. Dean says he would not marry you if you had twenty thousand a year?"
"It is a matter of the utmost indifference to me what Mr. Dean says or thinks either."
"He told me you considered Antonia and myself little, if at all, better than rats."
"Did he happen to tell you what I thought of him?"
There was no shaming or threatening Dolly into a good temper when a mood like this was on her. So Rupert changed his tactics.
"Do put down your pen and let us talk this matter over quietly together."
"You had better go away and not ask me to talk at all," she answered; but she ceased writing nevertheless.
"Do you want that letter posted?" he inquired.
"No, I shall send it by a messenger."