If you don't have that
girl back, and in double-quick time, too, I shall know how to
make you!"
"You have taught me to believe you capable of anything."
"You shall at least find me capable of a good deal. Do you
imagine, madam, I have found you a hair worse than I expected?"
"I never took the trouble to imagine anything about you."
"Then I need not ask you whether I married you to please you or
to please myself?"
"You need not. You can best answer that question yourself."
"Then we understand each other."
"We do not, Mr. Redmain; and, if this occurs again, I shall go to
Durnmelling."
She spoke with a vague idea that he also stood in some awe of the
father and mother whose dread, however well she hid it, she would
never, while she lived, succeed in shaking off. But to the
husband it was a rare delight to speak with conscious rectitude
in the moral chastisement of his wife. He burst into a loud and
almost merry laugh.
"Happy they will be to see you there, madam! Why, you goose, if I
send a telegram before you, they won't so much as open the door
to you! They know better which side their bread is buttered."
Hesper started up in a rage. This was too much--and the more too
much, that she believed it would be as he said.
"Mr. Redmain, if you do not leave the room, I will."
"Oh, don't!" he cried, in a tone of pretended alarm.
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