Who could impede his motions or gainsay his will?
Then he remembered his Kate's mother, and the glances which would come from the mother's eyes.

There might be difficulty even though Scroope were all his own.
He was not a villain;--simply a self-indulgent spoiled young man who had realized to himself no idea of duty in life.

He never once told himself that Kate should be his mistress.

In all the pictures which he drew for himself of a future life everything was to be done for her happiness and for her gratification.

His yacht should be made a floating bower for her delight.