Should I get them as her dependant?
No: for more than six years I have built my schemes and shaped my conduct according to one assured and definite object; and that object I shall not now, at the eleventh hour, let slip from my hands.
Enough of this: you will pass Brook-Green in returning from Cornwall; you will take Evelyn with you to Paris,--leave the rest to me.

Fear no folly, no violence, from my plans, whatever they may be: I work in the dark.

Nor do I despair that Evelyn will love, that Evelyn will voluntarily accept me yet: my disposition is sanguine; I look to the bright side of things; do the same!" Here their conference was interrupted by Lord Doltimore, who lounged carelessly into the room, with his hat on one side.

"Ah, Vargrave, how are you?
You will not forget the letters of introduction?
Where are you going, Caroline ?" "Only to my own room, to put on my bonnet; the carriage will be here in a few minutes." And Caroline escaped.
"So you go to Cornwall to-morrow, Doltimore ?" "Yes; cursed bore! but Lady Elizabeth insists on seeing us, and I don't object to a week's good shooting.

The old lady, too, has something to leave, and Caroline had no dowry,--not that I care for it; but still marriage is expensive." "By the by, you will want the five thousand pounds you lent me ?" "Why, whenever it is convenient." "Say no more,--it shall be seen to.