"Never! Never! I have thought it out, and I know that I am right. Things have been hard with me."
"Not to me! They will not have been hard to me when I shall have carried my point with you."
"I was forced to appear before your eyes as the heiress of my uncle."
"Has that made any difference with me?"
"And I was forced to refuse you in obedience to him who had adopted me."
"I understand all that very completely."
"Then he made a new will, and left me some money."
"Of all that I know, I think, every particular."
"But the money is not there." At this he nodded his head as though smiling at her absurdity in going back over circumstances which were so well understood by both of them. "The money is offered to me by my cousin, but I will not take it."
"As to that I have nothing to say. It is the one point on which, when we are married, I shall decline to give you any advice."