There is a plenty of Protestants about here that would have her; for she is a wonderful housewife, and as pure as Diana too." He paused at that; and looked at me in that cunning way of his that I misliked so much.

Yet even now I did not see what he would be at; for gentlemen do not usually fling their daughters at the head of any man; and he knew nothing of me but that I was pretty rich and would be more so one day.

But I suppose that that was enough for him.
"I had thought at one time," he went on, "of sending her to Court.

I could get her in, under the protection of my Lady Arlington.

But the Court is no place for a maiden who knows nothing of the world.