This, however, was at present impossible; so he was obliged to make some mild reply.
"You must have mistaken him, my dear.

He could not have intended to say that." "Oh! of course, Mr Gresham.

It is all a mistake, of course.

It will be a mistake, only a mistake when you find your son married to Mary Thorne." "Well, my dear, I cannot undertake to quarrel with Dr Thorne." This was true; for the squire could hardly have quarrelled with Dr Thorne, even had he wished it.
"Then I think it right to tell you that I shall.

And, Mr Gresham, I did not expect much co-operation from you; but I did think that you would have shown some little anger when you heard that I had been so ill-treated.