"I don't know that it can lead to anything. It's of no use, of course, if the young lady will wait the three years."
"I don't think she's at all anxious," said Harry.
"You might marry almost at once."
"That's what I should like."
"And come and live here."
"In this house?"
"Why not? I'm nobody. You'd soon find that I'm nobody."
"That's nonsense, Uncle Prosper. Of course you're everybody in your own house."
"You might endure it for six months in the year."
Harry thought of the sermons, but resolved at once to face them boldly. "I am only thinking how generous you are."