"Has Peregrine been speaking to you?"
"Peregrine!"
"Yes; Peregrine; my grandson?"
"He has spoken to me."
"Telling you to say this to me. Then he is an ungrateful boy;—a very ungrateful boy. I would have done anything to guard him from wrong in this matter."
"Ah; now I see the evil that I have done. Why did I ever come into the house to make quarrels between you?"
"There shall be no quarrel. I will forgive him even that if you will be guided by me. And, dearest Mary, you must be guided by me now. This matter has gone too far for you to go back—unless, indeed, you will say that personally you have an aversion to the marriage."
"Oh, no; no; it is not that," she said eagerly. She could not help saying it with eagerness. She could not inflict the wound on his feelings which her silence would then have given.
"Under those circumstances, I have a right to say that the marriage must go on."
"No; no."