"Would that be just and right, do you think?"
"Better do that than be married and lead a miserable life ever afterwards," said Ralph.
Presently Walter came in. He had "cooled his heels," and was all the better for it; or thought he was.
"Now then, I am ready," said he. "Come, Miss Burgess, what about it all? I mean, what do you think of the letters?"
"Your cousin writes very confidingly and affectionately," said Mary.
"Poor thing, so she does," Walter responded; "but then, you see, if what Elizabeth writes is true, what am I to think?"
"And do you think that what she writes is truer than what your cousin writes?"
"I have always believed in them both," replied Walter, in perplexity.
"May you not believe in them both now?"
"How can I when they write such different things?"