"I'm not a child--and anyhow I'm not yours!--nor am I dear! Are you--are you daring to think of playing the traitor?--of taking advantage of what I've told you to--to get him punished? Are you?"
"I am doing nothing of the kind--how you do jump to conclusions! I don't know the man from Adam. Why do you credit me with such sinister intentions?"
"Why did you ask me those questions--like that?"
"I've half a mind to tell you; then perhaps we shall begin to understand each other."
"Perhaps it is just as well that we shouldn't understand each other; but you will please to tell me."
"Miss Gilbert, you're a young lady with a temper."
"If you wish to speak to me like that----"
She half rose from the ground; he checked her.
"I don't--pray stay where you are! What times you and Frances Vernon must have had together!"
"What do you mean by that?"