"And you won't advise me. You won't tell me whether she is right?"
"I suppose she is right."
"Then I had better go?"
"If you mean to marry Captain Aylmer, you had better go."
"I am engaged to him."
"Then you had better go."
"But I will not submit myself to her tyranny."
"Let the marriage take place at once, and you will have to submit only to his. I suppose you are prepared for that?"
"I do not know. I do not like tyranny."
Again he stood silent for awhile, looking at her, and then he answered: "I should not tyrannise over you, Clara."