"I've got myself engaged to marry a young woman."
"A young woman!"
"Yes;—she's a young woman, of course; but she's a young lady as well. You know her name: it is Florence Mountjoy."
"That is the young lady that I've heard of. Was there not some other gentleman attached to her?"
"There was;—her cousin, Mountjoy Scarborough."
"His father wrote to me."
"His father is the meanest fellow I ever met."
"And he himself came to me,—down here. They were fighting your battle for you."
"I'm much obliged to them."
"For even I have interfered with him about the lady."