"If he really means to marry her----" "Marry her! Clara! You surely never feared THAT ?" "He certainly told us plainly enough that he would do it," said Miss Vance testily.
"Oh, you don't understand him! You have had so little to do with young men.

They are all liable to attacks like that--as to measles and scarlet fever.

But they pass off.

Now, George is not as susceptible as most of them.

But," lowering her voice, "he was madly in love with the butcher's Kate when he was ten, and five years afterward offered to marry the widow Potts.