"And what do you say, aunt Mary?"
"Well, I really agree with Caroline; I really do."
"Ah, she has talked you over." This was true.
"And what is the date, Miss Waddington, that you are now kind enough to name for our wedding-day?" asked George, in a tone half of anger and half of banter. To Caroline's ear, the anger seemed to predominate.
"The day after you shall have been called to the bar, Mr. Bertram. That is, if the press of two such great events together will not be too much for you."
"Of course you know that that is putting it off for nearly three years?"
"For more than two, I believe, certainly."
"And you can talk quite coolly about such a delay as that?"
"Not quite coolly, George; but, at any rate, with a fixed purpose."
"And am not I then to have a fixed purpose also?"