“I can never marry you now.”
“What! Good heavens! Don’t be absurd.”
“I can’t!”
“Oh, go on, have a dash at it,” he said encouragingly, though his heart was sinking.
She shook her head.
“No, I couldn’t.”
“Oh, hang it all!”
“I couldn’t. I’m a very strange girl....”
“You’re a very silly girl....”
“I don’t see what right you have to say that,” she flared.