Now I am to desert a girl I love because I am an English peer." "What has passed between you and the young lady, of course I do not know." "I may as well tell you the whole truth," said Fred.

And he told it.

He told it honestly,--almost honestly.

It is very hard for a man to tell a story truly against himself, but he intended to tell the whole truth.
"Now what must I do?
Would you have me marry her ?" Jack Neville paused for a long time.

"At any rate you can say yes, or no." "It is very hard to say yes, or no." "I can marry no one else.