"It's all very well for Dale to say that I have been treated fairly.

It isn't fair for a man to put forward his niece under false pretences.

Of course I thought that he intended to provide for her." And then, having made up his mind in a very manly way that he would not desert Lily altogether after having promised to marry her, he endeavoured to find consolation in the reflection that he might, at any rate, allow himself two years' more run as a bachelor in London.

Girls who have to get themselves married without fortunes always know that they will have to wait.

Indeed, Lily had already told him, that as far as she was concerned, she was in no hurry.