'
'Then I am quick-tempered too, and the sooner we are apart the
better, as he said himself'
'Oh, but you have always been such a patient girl.'
'My patience is at an end when I am treated as if I had neither
rights nor feelings. However wrong the choice I had made, this
was not the way to behave to me. His disappointment? Is there a
natural law, then, that a daughter must be sacrificed to her
father? My husband will have as much need of that money as my
father has, and he will be able to make far better use of it. It
was wrong even to ask me to give my money away like that. I have
a right to happiness, as well as other women.'
She was shaken with hysterical passion, the natural consequence
of this outbreak in a nature such as hers. Her mother, in the
meantime, grew stronger by force of profound love that at length
had found its opportunity of expression. Presently she persuaded
Marian to come upstairs with her, and before long the
overburdened breast was relieved by a flow of tears. But Marian's
purpose remained unshaken.
'It is impossible for us to see each other day after day,' she
said when calmer.
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