I gather you never said a word to the Bross lady on the subject, and very few on any other.

You tell me you left it all with that good woman, your aunt, to arrange after you left.
Do you think a creature of any sentiment would have accepted you on those terms?
Not she.

So far as I can make out, Miss Cameron is just a sensible, wise woman that would be the first to see the folly in this business if she knew the rights of it.

Come, Finlay, you're not such a great man with the ladies--you can't pretend she has any affection for you." The note of raillery in the Doctor's voice drew Finlay's brows together.
"I don't know," he said, "whether I have to think of her affections, but I do know I have to think of her dignity, her confidence, and her belief in the honourable dealing of a man whom she met under the sanction of a trusted roof.

The matter may look light here; it is serious there.