'You must; you shall!' were the terrible words she heard from her parent.

She dreaded to tell the truth, lest he should force a summary marriage.

Hope, my child, you could have resisted--so could I; she could not.

'Only, dear father,' she said, 'I am so young.

Let me not be married for a year.' Her father laughed and assented, and I think she instantly wrote to her lover in India.
"People came driving out to congratulate.