Your uncle says it would give him pleasure to see you accept me.' 'Does he say why ?' she asked thoughtfully.
'Yes; he takes, of course, a practical view of the matter; he thinks it commends itself so to reason and common sense that the owner of Stancy Castle should become a member of the De Stancy family.' 'Yes, that's the horrid plague of it,' she said, with a nonchalance which seemed to contradict her words.

'It is so dreadfully reasonable that we should marry.

I wish it wasn't!' 'Well, you are younger than I, and perhaps that's a natural wish.

But to me it seems a felicitous combination not often met with.

I confess that your interest in our family before you knew me lent a stability to my hopes that otherwise they would not have had.' 'My interest in the De Stancys has not been a personal interest except in the case of your sister,' she returned.