And it is ungrateful to throw away the chances that a kind aunt and Providence put in your way.

What have you against him ?" "Nothing at all, I think him very nice." Lady Thompson's brow lightened; if she thought him "very nice" all might yet be well.

Perhaps this refusal was nothing but nonsensical modesty.
Mr.Russell, being a gentleman, had not told her everything.
"Then I say you shall marry him." "And I say, Aunt, that I will not and cannot." "Why?
Have you been secretly converted to the Church of Rome, and are you going into a nunnery?
Or is there--another man ?" "Yes, Aunt." "Where is he ?" said Lady Thompson, looking about her as though she expected to find him hidden under the furniture.

"And how did you manage to become entangled with him, you sly girl, under my very nose?
And who is he?
One of those bowing and scraping Italians, I suppose, who think you'll get my money.

Tell me the truth at once." "He is somebody you have never seen, Aunt.