Here is an unknown girl: why should he marry her?
A girl consenting to the place beside a man of his handsome ripe age, is either bought, or she is madly enamoured; she does not dictate terms.

Ormont is not of the brute buyers in that market.

One sees it is the girl who leads the dance.

A girl is rarely so madly enamoured as when she falls in love with her grandfather; she pitches herself at his head.

This had not happened for the first time in Ormont's case; and he had never proposed marriage.