No; that would never do.

You must keep it up--only you mustn't be really angry.

Why not try a little cold severity ?" She looked so charming and humorous that the old man began to melt a little.

He glanced up at her once or twice under his heavy eyebrows.
"I wonder what you'll do," he said with a kind of gruffness, "when you find you've got to marry a pauper ?" "I shan't have to marry a pauper," said Jenny.

"That wouldn't do either." "Oh! you're counting on that eight hundred a year still, are you ?" Jenny allowed a little coldness to appear on her face.