y Mr Milvain he hopes never to see my face again.
I can't stay here. You shall come and see me, and we will be the same
to each other as always. But father has treated me too unjustly. I can't
live near him after this.'

'He doesn't mean it,' sobbed her mother. 'He says what he's sorry for
as soon as the words are spoken. He loves you too much, my darling, to
drive you away like that. It's his disappointment, Marian; that's all it
is. He counted on it so much. I've heard him talk of it in his sleep;
he made so sure that he was going to have that new magazine, and the
disappointment makes him that he doesn't know what he's saying. Only
wait and see; he'll tell you he didn't mean it, I know he will. Only
leave him alone till he's had time to get over it. Do forgive him this
once.'

'It's like a madman to talk in that way,' said the girl, releasing
herself. 'Whatever his disappointment, I can't endure it. I have worked
hard for him, very hard, ever since I was old enough, and he owes me
some kindness, some respect. It would be different if he had the least
reason for his hatred of Jasper. It is nothing but insensate prejudice,
the result of his quarrels with other people. What right has he to
insult me by representing my future husband as a scheming hypocrite?'

'My love, he has had so much to bear--it's made him so quick-tempered.'

'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,' s