"I engaged that I would take the name of Blancove."
"If he would cease to persecute Rhoda Fleming!"
"The stipulation was exactly in those words."
"You mean to carry it out?"
"To be sincere? I do, Percy!
"You mean to marry Algernon Blancove?"
"I should be contemptible indeed if I did, Percy!
"You do not?"
"I do not."
"And you are sincere? By all the powers of earth and heaven, there's no madness like dealing with an animated enigma! What is it you do mean?"