I too think that she might do as a wife, and I shall certainly make a better husband than Mountjoy would have done." "Miss Mountjoy will certainly do as a wife for any one who may be lucky enough to get her," said Harry, with a certain tone of magnificence which at the moment he felt to be overstrained and ridiculous.
"Oh yes; one has got to get her, as you call it, of course.

You mean to say that you are supposed to be in the running.

That is your own lookout.

I can only allege, on my own behalf, that it has always been considered to be an old family arrangement that Florence Mountjoy shall marry the heir to Tretton Park.

I am in that position now, and I only throw it out as a hint that I may feel disposed to follow out the family arrangement.