We've danced here before.

Do you think your father objects to me now?
I've risen in rank.

I fancy he's still a little against me.' 'He has repented, times enough.' 'And so have I! If I had married you then 'twould have saved many a misfortune.

I have sometimes thought it might have been possible to rush the ceremony through somehow before I left; though we were only in the second asking, were we?
And even if I had come back straight here when we returned from the Crimea, and married you then, how much happier I should have been!' 'Dear John, to say that! Why didn't you ?' 'O--dilatoriness and want of thought, and a fear of facing your father after so long.

I was in hospital a great while, you know.