If you persist in waiting to see my sister again, I will go to the cottage myself and appeal to your father.' He got up in a great hurry at those words.

'I have been infamously used in this business,' he said.

'All the hardships and the sacrifices have fallen to my share.

I'm the only one among you who has any heart: all the rest are as hard as stones--Magdalen included.

In one breath she says she loves me, and in another she tells me to go to China.