Miss Osborn is no the lass I would welcome for my son's wife." Osborn looked at him with frank surprise.

Then he said, "We'll make an end," and turned to Kit.

"If you speak to my daughter again, she will be forbidden to leave the Tarnside grounds; if you write to her, your letter will be burned.

She cannot resist my control for the next three or four years.

There's nothing more to be said." He went out and Peter, who walked to the porch with him, came back and looked quietly at Kit.
"A proud and foolish man, but he's hit hard!" he said.