I'm not joking now, Alfred.

I think of Adela in a way you very likely can't understand.

It would be shocking, oh! shocking, to try and make her marry him if she doesn't really wish to.' 'No fear! We shan't manage that.' 'And surely wouldn't wish to ?' 'I don't know.

Girls often can't see what's best for them.

I say, you understand that all this is in confidence ?' 'Of course I do.