I'm giving that up." "But why ?" she asked.

She answered herself at once, with a curious change from rapid speech to an almost melancholy tone.

"I think you're very wise to give it up.

You will be much happier." At this very moment, when her words seemed to be striking a path into the future for him, they stepped into the yard of an inn, and there beheld the family coach of the Otways, to which one sleek horse was already attached, while the second was being led out of the stable door by the hostler.
"I don't know what one means by happiness," he said briefly, having to step aside in order to avoid a groom with a bucket.

"Why do you think I shall be happy?
I don't expect to be anything of the kind.