"Well, as far as love goes, I do not know that I love any one."
"Yet you have lots of admirers."
"Have I?"
"Why, certainly you have, and a pretty girl like you deserves them. But tell me, do you care for this upstart lord?"
"Mamma says he has the blood of forty generations in his veins, and is the representative of one of the first noble families in England."
"I know mamma's weakness, and I am ashamed of it; but let me put it to you plainly. If you had your choice of the two men, which would you rather marry?"
"What do you think?" replied Lena with an arch smile.
"Harkaway."
"You are welcome to your opinion. I will not contradict you. Yet, Alfred, I cannot offend our mother, and I must be civil to a man, I freely admit, I do not like."
"If you ever marry him, I'll never speak to you again."