From what I hear, I think it probable that I may remain with him till everything is over." "I did not know that he was so old as that." "They say that he can hardly live above a month or two.

He will never see my wife,--if I can have a wife; but I should like to tell him, if it were possible,--that,--that--" "I understand you, Mr.Glascock." "I told you that I should come to you again, and as I may possibly linger at Naples all the winter, I could not go without seeing you.
Miss Rowley, may I hope that you can love me ?" She did not answer him a word, but stood looking away from him with her hands clasped together.

Had he asked her whether she would be his wife, it is possible that the answer which she had prepared would have been spoken.

But he had put the question in another form.

Did she love him?
If she could only bring herself to say that she could love him, she might be lady of Monkhams before the next summer had come round.
"Nora," he said, "do you think that you can love me ?" "No," she said, and there was something almost of fierceness in the tone of her voice as she answered him.
"And must that be your final answer to me ?" "Mr.Glascock, what can I say ?" she replied.