I have had to speak very plainly to him, and to make him understand that I am marrying for my own benefit and not for his." "Where is he, then ?" "I don't know.

At the Three Pigeons, no doubt.

He spends most of his time there now.

He flew off in a passion, and talked such nonsense about marriage settlements, and forbidding the banns, and so on.

His notion of a marriage settlement appears to be a settlement upon the bride's father.