HE, abruptly: "I've come" -

SHE: "Won't you come in?"

HE, advancing a few paces into the room: "I've come" -

SHE, indicating a chair: "Will you sit down?"

HE: "I must stand for the present. I've come to ask you for that
money, Miss Reed, which I refused yesterday, in terms that I blush to
think of. I was altogether and wholly in the wrong, and I'm ready to
offer any imaginable apology or reparation. I'm ready to take the
money and to sign a receipt, and then to be dismissed with whatever
ignominy you please. I deserve anything--everything!"

SHE: "The money? Excuse me; I don't know--I'm afraid that I'm not
prepared to pay you the whole sum to-day."

HE, hastily: "Oh, no matter! no matter! I don't care for the money
now. I merely wish to--to assure you that I thought you were
perfectly right in offering it, and to--to" -

SHE: "What?"

HE: "Nothing. That is--ah--ah" -

SHE: "It's extremely embarrassing to have people refuse their money
when it's offered them, and then come the next day for it, when
perhaps it isn't so convenient to pay it--VERY embarrassing."