That he should talk of pardoning her, as for some great fault, was in itself a misery.

But she had not on that account the least idea of giving up her lover.

Young as she was, she had her own peculiar theory on that matter, her own code of conduct and honour, from which she did not mean to be driven.

Of course she had not expected that her father would yield at the first word.

He, no doubt, would wish that she should make a more exalted marriage.