“Ah! You refuse? Well, what are you hoping for? For Daniel’s return?
Don’t you know that he loves Sarah?”
“Ah! you abuse my forlorn condition infamously!” broke in the young
girl. And, as he still insisted, she added,--
“Why don’t you go, coward? Why don’t you go, wretched man? Must I call?”
He was frightened, backed to the door, and half opened it; then he
said,--
“You refuse me to-day; but, before the month is over, you will beg me to
come to you. You are ruined; and I alone can rescue you.”