That's my idea of the Whole Duty of Man--when Man is married.

You are still standing?
Let me give you a chair." It was cruel--under other circumstances it would have been impossible--to disappoint him.

But the vague fear of consequences which had taken possession of Anne was not to be trifled with.

She had no clear conception of the risk (and it is to be added, in justice to Geoffrey, that _he_ had no clear conception of the risk) on which Arnold had unconsciously ventured, in undertaking his errand to the inn.
Neither of them had any adequate idea (few people have) of the infamous absence of all needful warning, of all decent precaution and restraint, which makes the marriage law of Scotland a trap to catch unmarried men and women, to this day.

But, while Geoffrey's mind was incapable of looking beyond the present emergency, Anne's finer intelligence told her that a country which offered such facilities for private marriage as the facilities of which she had proposed to take advantage in her own case, was not a country in which a man could act as Arnold had acted, without danger of some serious embarrassment following as the possible result.
With this motive to animate her, she resolutely declined to take the offered chair, or to enter into the proposed conversation.
"Whatever we have to say about Blanche, Mr.Brinkworth, must be said at some fitter time.