"Enough, enough," he said contemptuously. "I have only one thing more to say to you. I loved you very much and that alone ought to have given me the right to be treated differently. When a girl allows a young man to tell her he loves her she belongs to him and is not free to do as she likes." This phrase was rather feeble, but it expressed exactly what he wanted to say. which is a great deal to expect of a lover's reproach. He had in fact no other claim to plead save the fact that he had told her he loved her.