So would you, if----" He pauses.

"If she hadn't a penny you wouldn't know her," he says presently; "and you admit she has no manners, yet you ask me to marry her.

Now, if I did marry her, what should I do with her ?" "Educate her! Control her! Says his mother, a little viciously.
"I confess I am not equal to the occasion.

I could not manage a baby.

The situation doesn't suit me." "Maurice--it _must!"_ Lady Rylton rises, and, standing near him with her hand on the table, looks at him with a pale face.