“I have been to see her. She is going to marry me as soon as you return to Woodsome.”
“I told you to write. Why did you not follow my advice?”
“I bettered it.”
“That is yet to be seen. Is Cousin Peter willing?”
“Yes. But my mother is very angry indeed, and greatly to my surprise, father is almost equally so.”
“Henry Filmer has only a certain amount of good sense; he used it up on his daughter’s affairs. Pray, what has Mrs. Filmer to say against your marriage?”
“She says I am her only son, and that it is very hard to have me taken away from her.”
“She took Henry Filmer, who was an only son, from his father and mother.”
“She does not like Yanna.”
“It is not she who has to marry Yanna.”