The old doctor who was my predecessor here told me at the time that he thought she had bewitched Sir Timothy; but afterwards he said that he believed it was only that Sir Timothy had made up his mind even then to quarter the Setoun arms with his own.

Anyway, he went against his sisters for the first and only time in his life, and they learnt that Lady Mary was not to be interfered with.

Whether it was gratitude or just the childish satisfaction of triumphing over her two enemies, I can't tell, but she married him in less than two years after she came to live at Barracombe.

The old ladies didn't know whether to be angry or pleased.

They wanted him to marry, and they wanted his wife to be well-born, no doubt; but to have a mere child set over them! Well, the marriage took place in London." "I was present," said John.
"The people here said things about it that may have got round to Sir Timothy; but I don't know.