She saw at once it was to be business, not sentiment.

You are to pay her one more visit, to sign, and part friends.

If you please, I'll make that appointment with both parties, as soon as the deed is engrossed.

Oh, by-the-by, she did shed a tear or two, but she dried them to ask me for the ponies and the brown mare." Sir Charles's vanity was mortified.

But he laughed it off, and said she should have them, of course.
So now his mind was at ease, his conscience was at rest, and he could give his whole time where he had given his heart.
Richard Bassett learned, through his servant, that the wedding-dresses were ordered.