16/19 She thought: "What can he want but my love ?" And thus she satisfied her own hungry questioning by seeming to supply an answer to his. "Would you let one of your blood ?" asked Wilfrid brutally. With some cunning he led them to admit that Emilia's parents should rightly be consulted in such a case. I beg you to invite friends of yours." Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect. |