"God bless you for saying so! You are the one to love a man the better when he's down on his luck. I know that. Yet we must never——"
"Never what?"
"Marry."
"Not—marry?" She stared at him in sheer amazement. "Not when we promised—only yesterday? You may break your word if you like. Mine I would never break!"
"Then I must. It is not to be thought of any more. Surely you see? It's not that I have lost the money and the title; oh! you must see what it is!"
"Of course I see. But I don't allow the objection."
"Your people would never hear of it now; and quite right too."
"My people! I am of age. I have a little money of my own, enough for us both. I can do exactly what I like. Besides, I'm not so sure about my people; you don't know my father as I know him."
"He is a man of the world. He would not hear of it."
"Then I must act for myself."