'Oh! you're the girl of his heart, I know.'
'Well, Harry, you have first place, and I want you to keep it.'
'But here's an oath I've sworn to my father.'
'He should not have exacted it, I think.'
'I promised him when I was a youngster.'
'Then be wiser now, Harry.'
'You have brilliant ideas of the sacredness of engagements.'
'I think I have common sense, that's all.'
'This is a matter of feeling.'
'It seems that you forgot it, though!'