But why shouldn't he?
It's just what he ought to do.

He hasn't got a wife; and, as far as I know, you haven't got a lover." "I certainly have not got a lover." "Our religious nephew at Perivale does not seem to be of any use." "I wish, Mrs.Askerton, you would not speak of Captain Aylmer in that way.

I don't know any man whom I like so much, or at any rate better, than Captain Aylmer; but I hate the idea that no girl can become acquainted with an unmarried man without having her name mentioned with his, and having to hear ill-natured remarks of that kind." "I hope you will learn to like this other man much better.

Think how nice it will be to be mistress of the old place after all.

And then to go back to the old family name! If I were you I would make up my mind not to let him leave the place till I had brought him to my feet." "If you go on like that I will not speak to you about him again." "Or rather not to my feet,--for gentlemen have laid aside the humble way of making love for the last twenty years at least; but I don't know whether the women haven't gained quite as much by the change as the men." "As I know nothing will stop you when you once get into a vein of that kind, I shall go," said Clara.