She has plenty of money for both, and as he has managed to keep up on his younger son's portion, he can have no extravagant tastes, and will make her a very good husband.
There is no other engagement to be announced, I suppose ?" "As I am the only other unmarried man on board, Colonel, your question is somewhat pointed.

No; I hope there may be one of these days, but I don't think that it would be fair to ask her here, where I am her host, and she is under the glamour of the sea.

I doubt whether she has the slightest idea of what I want.

That is the worst of being very old friends; the relations get so fixed that a woman does not recognise that they can ever be changed.
However, I shall try my luck one of these days.

I don't think that I shall meet with any serious opposition on her mother's part, if Bertha likes me, but I know that Lady Greendale has very much more ambitious views for her, and has quite set her mind upon her making a good match.