"No. I've never seen her, not to my knowledge. How long have you known her?"
"Ever since I came here. She's one of the boarders."
"Ah-h. Has she any means?"
"None."
Isaac's heart leapt high.
"Aren't you going to congratulate me?"
"How can I, when I haven't seen the lady?"
"You would, if you had seen her."
"And when is it to be? Like most young people, you're a bit impatient, I suppose?"
Keith betrayed the extremity of his impatience by a painful flush. This subject of his marriage was not to be approached without a certain shame.