"Really, I don't think you had any right---"
"Miss Gladys!" he cried in sudden anguish; and she stopped and stared
at him, frightened.
"Do you know what you have done to me?" he exclaimed.
"Samuel," she said in a trembling voice, "I am very much surprised and
upset. I had no idea of such a thing; and you must stop, before it is
too late."
"But I love you!" he cried, half beside himself.
"Yes," she said in great agitation--"and that's very good of you. But
there are some things you. must remember--"
"You--you let me embrace you, Miss Gladys! You let me think of you so!
Why, what is a man to do? What was I to make of it? I had never loved
a woman before. And you--you led me on--"
"Samuel, you must not talk like this!" she broke in. "I can't listen
to you. It was a misunderstanding, and you must forget it all. You
must go away. We must not meet again."
"Miss Gladys!" he cried in horror.
"Yes," she exclaimed, "you must go--"
"You are going to turn me off!" he panted. "Oh, how can you say such a
thing? Why, think what you have done to me!"
"Samuel," protested the girl angrily, "this is perfectly preposterous
behavior of you! You have no right to go on in this way. You never had
any right to--to think such things. How could you so forget your
place?"
And he started as if stung with a whip. "My place!" he gasped.
"Yes," she said.
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