You are not to see him.

Cut him adrift instantly! I only wish his volk were on my farm--out they should go, or I would know the reason why.

However, you are to write him a letter to this effect at once.' 'How can I cut him adrift ?' 'Why not?
You must, my good maid!' 'Well, though I have not actually married him, I have solemnly sworn to be his wife when he comes home from abroad to claim me.

It would be gross perjury not to fulfil my promise.

Besides, no woman can go to church with a man to deliberately solemnize matrimony, and refuse him afterwards, if he does nothing wrong meanwhile.' The uttered sound of her strong conviction seemed to kindle in Christine a livelier perception of all its bearings than she had known while it had lain unformulated in her mind.