Live up to her pronouncement, and go forthwith to visit Sir Oliver and compose their quarrel.
The acknowledgment of his fault was handsomely made, and Sir Oliver received it in a spirit no less handsome.

But when Sir John came to the matter of Mistress Rosamund he was, out of his sense of duty to her, less generous.

He announced that since he could not bring himself to look upon Sir Oliver as a suitable husband for her, nothing that he had now said must mislead Sir Oliver into supposing him a consenting party to any such union.
"But that," he added, "is not to say that I oppose it.

I disapprove, but I stand aside.

Until she is of full age her brother will refuse his sanction.