I can rely on them.' 'Pray,' interposed Lady Dunstane, 'specify--I am rather in a mist--the exact point upon which you do me the honour to consult me.' She ridiculed herself for having imagined that such a man would come to consult her upon a point of business.
'It is,' he replied, 'this: whether, as affairs now stand with me--I have an income from my office, and personal property...

say between thirteen and fourteen hundred a year to start with--whether you think me justified in asking a lady to share my lot ?' 'Why not?
But will you name the lady ?' 'Then I may write at once?
In your judgement....

Yes, the lady.

I have not named her.

I had no right.