"What makes you think so?"
"Because it will not come till I have seen you at least, I should judge, half across the bay."
"But I don't want to go."
"You are so unaccustomed to doing things you don't want to do, that it is good discipline for you."
"Do you mean that seriously?" said Elizabeth, looking a little disturbed.
"I mean it half seriously," said he laughing, getting up to push the boat to shore, which had swung a little off.
"But nobody likes, or wants, self-imposed discipline," said
Elizabeth.
"This isn't self-imposed — I impose it," said he throwing the rope round a branch of the tree. "I don't mean anything that need make you look so," he added as he came back to his place.
Elizabeth looked up and her brow cleared.
"I dare say you are right," she said. "I will do just as you please."