"I think so."
"By jilting—it's an ugly word, too—by jilting Kate?"
"Precisely."
"But she will break her heart."
"No, she won't. I am a physician, and I know. Hearts never break, except in women's novels. They're the toughest part of the human anatomy."
"What a consolating thought! And you really advise me to throw over Kate, and take to my bosom the fair, the fascinating Rose?"
"You couldn't do better."
"Wouldn't there be the deuce to pay if I did, though, with that fire-eating father of hers? I should have my brains blown out before the honey-moon was ended."
"I don't see why, so that you marry one of his daughters, how can it matter to him which? With a viscount and a baronet at the feet of the peerless Kate, he ought to be glad to be rid of you."
"It seems to me, Doctor Danton, you talk uncommonly plain English."