“What right have you to ask?”
“At least I live under the same roof with you both.”
“What if she knows I do not intend to marry her?”
“My duty is equally plain: I am the friend of her only relatives. If I did not do my best for the poor girl, I dared not look my Master in the face!—Where is your honour, my lord?”
“I never told her I would marry her.”
“I never supposed you had.”
“Well, what then?”
“I repeat, such attentions as yours must naturally be supposed by any innocent girl to mean marriage.”
“Bah! she is not such a fool!”
“I fear she is fool enough not to know to what they must then point!”