It was some sort of quarrel, I suppose.
I wasn't consulted in the matter either way.

It appears that parents are not consulted in these trifling affairs, nowadays." He had married his daughter's mother in open defiance of her father; but in the glare of his daughter's wilfulness this fact had whitened into pious obedience.
"I dare say I shall be told, by-and-by, and shall be expected to approve of the result." A fancy possessed March that by operation of temperamental laws General Triscoe was no more satisfied with Burnamy's final rejection than with his acceptance.

If the engagement was ever to be renewed, it might be another thing; but as it stood, March divined a certain favor for the young man in the general's attitude.

But the affair was altogether too delicate for comment; the general's aristocratic frankness in dealing with it might have gone farther if his knowledge had been greater; but in any case March did not see how he could touch it.

He could only say, He had always liked Burnamy, himself.
He had his good qualities, the general owned.