I will have no appearances come between us; there shall be no pause till you bear my name and have entered my home; after that, let life do with us what it will.' Emily drank in the vehement flow of words with delight and fear.

It was this virile eagerness, this force of personality, which had before charmed her thought into passiveness, and made her senses its subject; but a stronger motive of resistance actuated her now.

In her humility she could not deem the instant gain of herself to be an equivalent to him for what he would certainly, and what he might perchance, lose.

She feared that he had disguised his father's real displeasure, and she could not reconcile herself to the abrupt overthrow of all the purposes Wilfrid had entertained before he knew her.

She strove with all the energy of her own strong character to withstand him for his good.
'Wilfrid, let it at least be postponed till your father's return.