GROAT.

“Please, minister, I think not. It is Nanna Sinclair.”

“I thought so. You love her, David?”

“Better than my life.”

“And she does not love you?”

“She loves me as I love her.”

“Then what is there to make you miserable? In a few months, David, you will marry her and be happy.”

“Nanna will not marry me in a few months–she will not marry me at all.”

“Nanna ought not to trouble a good man with such threats. Of course she will marry. Why not?”