"You misunderstand me," said Hartley Emerson, speaking as calmly as was possible in this sudden emergency. "I did not refer specially to myself, but to all of our party, to whom you had given up your will in a promise to ride out with them, and to whom, therefore, you were bound." "An easy evasion," retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise. "Irene," the young man spoke sternly, "are those the right words for your husband? An easy evasion!" "I have said them." "And you must unsay them."
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