He has a fine estate, and is a gentleman--and worships me.
Since I have been promised to him, I own I have for a moment seen another gentleman who _might_--but 'twas but for a moment, and 'tis done with.
'Twas too late then.

If we had met two years agone 'twould not have been so.

My Lord Dunstanwolde gives to me wealth, and rank, and life at Court.

I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul--myself.

It is an honest bargain, and I shall bear my part of it with honesty.