"no never nowhere! i’ve been at home all my life, corked up in a bottle; and they expect me to be married straight out of it. what are you laughing at again? i observe that you, too, have taken to laughing at me, and range yourself on their side against me," she added, frowning angrily. "don’t irritate me i’m bad enough without that i don’t know what i am doing sometimes. i am persuaded that you came here today in the full belief that i am in love with you, and that i arranged this meeting because of that," she cried, with annoyance.