"And do you exist
somewhere, or is this a 'situation' calculated to delight the
American girl--with pin-money to spend on Messrs. Herring, Beemer, &
Chadwick's publications?"
"I do exist," I replied, meekly; for, I must confess it, I realized
more than ever that Miss Andrews was too much for me, and I heartily
wished I was well out of it. "And I alone am responsible for this.
Harley is off fishing at Barnegat--and do you know why?"
"I presume he has gone there to recuperate," she said.
"Precisely," said I.
"After his ungentlemanly, discourteous, and wholly uncalled-for
interference with my comfort at Newport," she said, her face flushing
and tears coming into her eyes, "I don't wonder he's prostrated."
"I do not know to what you refer," said I.
"I refer to the episode of the runaway horse," she said, in wrathful
remembrance of the incident. "Because I refuse to follow blindly his
will, he abuses his power, places me in a false and perilous
situation, from which I, a defenceless woman, must rescue myself
alone and unaided.
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