"Teach your grandmother," returned Henry, lapsing into one of those free, popular phrases he indulged in, and was indulged in. "How you stare at me! Do you think I am not cured? Ay; years ago."
"You'd have no objection to see Anna marry, I suppose?"
"She's welcome to marry, for me. You may go and propose to her yourself, if you like. I'll be groomsman at the wedding."
"Would the alliance give you pleasure?"
Henry laughed. "You'd deserve hanging in chains, if you did enter upon it; that's all."
"I have had one wife assigned to me to-day," remarked William.
"Whom may she be?"
"Sophy Glenn."
"Sophy Glenn?"
"Sophy Glenn. Chambers gravely assured me that Helstonleigh had settled the match. He, Chambers, considers that I may go farther and fare worse. Mr. Ashley said the same."