She laughed.
“Oh! you must speak to Sir John about that. Now listen; I am going to surprise you. Your cousin wants to get married.”
“Get married! George wants to get married!”
“Exactly so; and now I have a further surprise in store for you—he wants to marry your daughter Angela.”
This time Philip said nothing, but he started in evident and uncomfortable astonishment. If Lady Bellamy wished to surprise him, she had certainly succeeded.
“Surely you are joking!” he said.
“I never was further from joking in my life; he is desperately in love with her, and wild to marry her.”
“Well?”
“Well, don’t you now see a way to force your cousin to sell the lands?”
“At the price of Angela’s hand?”