All that was settled, I thought, when I went away.

But coming back at the end of four years, of four such long years, with very different ideas of life----' 'What ideas ?' 'Well,--at any rate, with ideas of having my own way,--I cannot submit myself to this plan of yours, which, though it would have given me so much----' 'It would give you everything, sir.' 'Granted! But I cannot take everything.

It is better that we should understand each other, so that my cousin, for whom I have the most sincere regard, should not be annoyed.' 'Much you care!' 'What shall I say ?' 'It signifies nothing what you say.

You are a false man.

You have inveigled your cousin's affections, and now you say that you can do nothing for her.