His father had once told him that when he married, the house in Carlton Terrace should be his own.

"I will be a lodger if you will have me," said the Duke; "or if your wife should not like that, I will find a lodging elsewhere." This had been in the sadness and tenderness which had immediately followed the death of the Duchess.

Marriage would steady him.

Were he a married man, Tifto would of course disappear.

Upon the whole he thought it would be good that he should marry.