If our lives are to grow together, we must begin.
This is _our_ opportunity." She knew that Dory was not a man she could play fast and loose with, even had she been so disposed.

Clearly, she must decide whether she intended to marry him, to make his life hers and her life his.

She looked helplessly round.

What but him was there to build on?
Without him--She broke the long silence with, "That is true.

We must begin." Then, after a pause during which she tried to think and found she couldn't, "Make up my mind for me." "Let us be married day after to-morrow," said he.