I know well how impotent I am,--how powerless to exercise control.

But I think, Fred, that for your uncle's sake you will not refuse to repeat your promise to me, if you intend to keep it.

Why is it that I am so anxious?
It is for your sake, and for the sake of a name which should be dearer to you than it is even to me." "I have no intention of marrying at all." "Do not say that." "I do say it.

I do not want to keep either you or Jack in the dark as to my future life.

This young lady,--of whom, by the by, neither you nor Lady Mary Quin know anything, shall not become Countess of Scroope.