You know very well that I don't mean to creep out of anything." "I'm sure you don't.

But as you ask me I must tell you what I think.

You are in a sort of dilemma between this girl and Uncle Scroope." "I'm not in any dilemma at all." "You seem to think you have made some promise to him which will be broken if you marry her;--and I suppose you certainly have made her a promise." "Which I certainly mean to keep," said Fred.
"All right.

Then you must break your promise to Uncle Scroope." "It was a sort of half and half promise.

I could not bear to see him making himself unhappy about it." "Just so.