"You think he wouldn't take it?"
"I think it is very likely."
"What a fool! — Then I shall send away my horse!" said Elizabeth; "for either he must be under obligation to me, or I to him; and I don't choose the latter."
"Do you expect to get through the world without being under obligation to anybody?" said Winthrop smiling.
But Elizabeth had turned, and marching out of the house did not make any reply.
"What's the objection to being under obligation, Miss Elizabeth?" said Mrs. Landholm. Elizabeth was mounting her horse, in which operation Winthrop assisted her.
"It don't suit me!"
"Fortune's suits do not always fit," said Winthrop. "But then —"
"Then what?" —
"She never alters them."