'Here's a change!' exclaimed Miss Jane, 'What a disgraceful scene there has been here, brother! I apologise to myself for allowing my emotions to overcome me.'
'Leave us, please, Jane.'
'Certainly, Henry,' and as she went, she cast a withering look at
Frank.
CHAPTER VI
LEE ENJOYS HIMSELF
Lee sat down behind the table and began to point a quill. Frank took a chair opposite him.
'Mr. Hay,' said Lee, 'we may as well come to the point at once. My daughter cannot marry you. I have chosen her a husband.'
'I am glad to come to the point at once,' said Frank. 'Miss
Chartres bade me tell you that she will have no husband but me.
She sends you this message: You may kill her, but you cannot force
her to marry against her will.'
'I am sorry her message is so commonplace. It indicates that her novel-reading has not been eclectic, to say the least; and, which is of more importance to me, it lowers the tone of the present work. That, of course, you don't understand; but no matter. Force her to marry against her will? Surely not. You know, if she doesn't, that people never act against their wills. We will change her will, or kill it.'
'Which would be to kill her.'