Why should he not do the magnificent thing?
Miss Prettyman's eloquence was so strong that it half convinced him that the Barchester Club and Mr.Walker had come to a wrong conclusion after all.
"And how does Miss Crawley bear it ?" he asked, desirous of postponing for a while any declaration of his own purpose.
"She is very unhappy, of course.

Not that she thinks evil of her father." "Of course she does not think him guilty." "Nobody thinks him so in this house, Major Grantly," said the little woman, very imperiously.

"But Grace is, naturally enough, very sad;--very sad indeed.

I do not think I can ask you to see her to-day." "I was not thinking of it," said the major.
"Poor, dear girl! it is a great trial for her.

Do you wish me to give her any message, Major Grantly ?" The moment had now come in which he must say that which he had come to say.