Which proposition the ladies illustrated for another quarter of an hour.
The gentlemen came in then, one after another, but Elizabeth did not move from her window.
"I have something of yours in my possession, Miss Haye," said Rufus, coming to the outside of the curtain within which she stood.
"What?" said Elizabeth unceremoniously.
"Your father."
"What are you going to do with him?"
Rufus laughed a little; and Winthrop remarked there was nothing like straightforward dealing to confound a manoeuvrer.
"I have a desire to put him out of my hands, into yours," said Rufus; — "but then, I have also a desire to make him fast there."
"My bracelet!" said Elizabeth.
It had a likeness of Mr. Haye in cameo.