"About Captain Marrable, uncle?"
"Well,—he is just the same as a cousin;—it turns out that he is engaged to marry another cousin,—Mary Lowther."
"She is his real cousin, Uncle Gregory."
"I never saw the young lady,—that I know of."
"Nor have I,—but I've heard so much about her! And everybody says she is nice. I hope they'll come and live here."
"I don't know yet, my dear."
"He told me all about it when he was here."
"Told you he was going to be married?"
"No, uncle, he did not tell me that exactly;—but he said that—that—. He told me how much he loved Mary Lowther, and a great deal about her, and I felt sure it would come so."
"Then you are aware that what I had hinted about you and Walter—"