If this were true--oh, my God! if it were true--fortune, love and everything else were lost.
"Where were you married ?" asked Sir John.
"At Edgerton--St.Helen's, Edgerton.

The Rev.Henry Morton married us, and the two witnesses were Sarah Smith, who was my maid, and Arthur Ireton, who was head game-keeper here at Crown Anstey." It was so quickly told and so seemingly correct, we looked at each other in amaze.
"We must examine into it," said Sir John, "before going any further." "That will be best," she replied, composedly.

"I had better explain that Miles, poor fellow, fell in love with me the first time he saw me.

Sir Barnard would not hear of such a thing.

He told Miles that if he persisted in marrying me he would curse him.