I do _hope_ he won't.

Don't you, Kitty dearest?
It's so _much_ nicer not to propose.
It's so horrid when they go and propose.

And then, you know, I've had so much of that sort of thing.

So, Kitty, I think he's really the nicest person that I ever saw, and I really think I'm beginning to like him." Far different from these were the conversations which Mrs.Willoughby had with Ethel.

She was perfectly familiar with Ethel's story.