"Not quite," said Arnold.
"It is exactly the same thing. Pray, have you proposed to this—this young lady of the second-hand bookshop?"
"No, I have not."
"You are in love with her, however?"
"I am, Clara."
"And you intend to ask her—in the shop, I dare say, among the second-hand books—to become your wife?"
"That is my serious intention, Clara."
"Claude did the same thing. His father remonstrated with him in vain, he took his wife to London, where, for a time, he lived in misery and self-reproach."
"Do you know that he reproached himself?"