"You have a project? Let me hear it. You are mad, if you have."
"It is not our doing, Mr. Blancove. It was—it was by her own choice. She will not always be ashamed to look her father in the face. She dare not see him before she is made worthy to see him. I believe her to have been directed right."
"And what is her choice?"
"She has chosen for herself to marry a good and worthy man."
Edward called out, "Have you seen him—the man?"
Rhoda, thinking he wished to have the certainty of the stated fact established, replied, "I have."
"A good and worthy man," muttered Edward. "Illness, weakness, misery, have bewildered her senses. She thinks him a good and worthy man?"
"I think him so."
"And you have seen him?"
"I have."