“It’s no good,” said Henry Churchill. “I have talked to her.”
“What did you say?”
“Told her I heartily disapproved of everything she was doing.”
“That was unwise.”
“I believe in saying what I think.”
“Yet people who always say what they think rarely have the privilege of doing what they like. You have made a regrettable mistake, and there is nothing left for you to do but leave her horizon until the memory of it has vanished.”
“But I want to marry her.”
“Precisely. Hence my suggestion.”
“Look here: will you promise not to re-engage her after this piece?”
“Why should I?”