"I do not know."
"Have you fortune?"
"God knows, no!"
"You have but love-and this country?"
"That is all."
"It is enough," said she, sighing. "Dear God, it is enough! But then"-she turned to me suddenly—"I don't think you will be married so soon, after all. Wait."
"That is what Mr. Pakenham wanted Mr. Calhoun to do," I smiled.
"But Mr. Pakenham is not a woman."
"Ah, then you also forbid our banns?"
"If you challenge me," she retorted, "I shall do my worst."