But do you think her situation is an insuperable objection ?" "Why, Thurstan!--it's so insuperable, it puts it quite out of the question." "How ?--that's only repeating your objection.

Why is it out of the question ?" "If there had been no child coming, we might have called her by her right name--Miss Hilton; that's one thing.

Then, another is, the baby in our house.

Why, Sally would go distraught!" "Never mind Sally.

If she were an orphan relation of our own, left widowed," said he, pausing, as if in doubt.