.

.

What could have induced you to come on such an errand now?
It seems quite extraordinary, if I may say so!' 'It must--I daresay it does,' Millborne replied vaguely; 'and I must tell you that impulse--I mean in the sense of passion--has little to do with it.

I wish to marry you, Leonora; I much desire to marry you.

But it is an affair of conscience, a case of fulfilment.