Anna My word, Miss, love and marriage have been divorced for a long time and have sworn never to live together. I hold their oaths are more likely to be kept than yours.
Elizabeth
Stop joking; Manly and I have found a way to keep in touch.
Anna
I wish it. Is that all you have to tell me?
Elizabeth
I tremble to tell you the rest.
Anna
Oh! Oh! I'm afraid you've quenched your thirst en route.
Elizabeth
What do you meant by that?
Anna
You know what I mean by it.— Continue!
Elizabeth As Manly is my equal in birth, and besides has a considerable fortune, we agreed that one of his friends should go to my father without naming Manly as the person in question, to find out if my father would be willing to give me in marriage to a person who is perfectly suited to me.
Anna
Good.
Elizabeth I cannot tell you how coldly he was received. In a word, my father absolutely refused everybody who was named.