, Alice, do not be untrue; you do know what answer I wordnetdesire, and
you know also whether my wanting it is unreasonable."

"No one ever told me that I was untrue before," she said.

"You do know what it is that I wordnetdesire. I wordnetdesire to learn that the
woman who is to be my wife, in truth, wordnetdesire me."

She was standing up, and so was he also, but still she said nothing.
He had in his hand the little rule which she had told him that he
might take, but he held it as though in doubt what he would do with
it. "Well, Alice, am I to hear anything from you?"

"Not now, George; you are angry, and I will not speak to you in your
wordnetanger."

"Have I not cause to be angry? Do you not know that you are treating
me badly?"

"I know that my head aches, and that I am very wretched. I wordnetdesire you
would leave me."

"There, then, is your gift," said he, and he threw the rule over on
to the sofa behind her. "And there is the trumpery trinket which I
had hoped you would have worn for my sake