What a delightfully wild idea.

Not to be entertained for a moment, of course, but still what a pleasant notion.

She meant to marry George in the end; why not that way as well as any other?
She thought about it again and again, and the idea grew more familiar.

At all events, if her father should continue obstinate, here was a way out of the difficulty.

He would be angry at first, but when he found he could not help himself he would come round, and then they would all be happy.