If she marries him without stress or compulsion, she does it deliberately, and she shapes her own course and her own fate.

In the meantime I advise you to hold back for the present, and wait until her own sentiments are distinctly understood.

That can be effected by a private interview with yourself, which you can easily obtain.

Let us not be severe on Harry.

I rather think he is pressed forward in the matter by my mother, for the sake of the property If his uncle has discarded him, it is not, surely, unreasonable that a young man like him, without a profession or any fixed purpose in life, should wish to secure a wife--and such a wife--who will bring back to him the very property which was originally destined for himself in the first instance.