I mean to marry the girl on Thursday night--and you can quite well put off going South until Friday morning, and see me through it." Mr.Fordyce prepared to go towards the door, and when there said, in a voice of ice: "I shall do no such thing.

I cannot prevent your doing this, I suppose--taking advantage of a young girl for your own ends, it seems to me--so I shall go now." Michael's temper began to blaze with this, his oldest friend.
"As you please," he flashed.

"But it is perfect rot, all this high palaver.

The girl gains by it as well as I.I am not taking the least advantage of her.

I shall have to get her guardian's consent, and I suppose he'll know what he is up to.