The things we do!

"
"Yes, it was a falsehood!" the poor lad cried out. "You follow a fellow,
and you make a fool of him, and you make him frantic in love with you,
and then you fling him over! I wonder you can look me in the face after
such an infernal treason. You've done it to twenty fellows before, I know
you have. Everybody said so, and warned me. You draw them on, and get
them to be in love, and then you fling them away. Am I to go back to
London and be made the laughing-stock of the whole town--I, who might
marry any woman in Europe, and who am at the head of the nobility of
England?"
"Upon my word, if you will believe me after deceiving you once," Ethel
interposed, still very humbly, "I will never say that it was I who
withdrew from you, and that it was not you who refused me. What has
happened here fully authorises you. Let the rupture of the engagement
come from you, my lord. Indeed, indeed, I would spare you all the pain I
can. I have done you wrong enough already, Lord Farintosh.


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