I will speak with you about it again to-morrow." So he went out, and left her stunned, but by no means beaten.

And, from that day a struggle began--if indeed it could be called a struggle, where the one party had not the slightest comprehension of the resistance of the other.

At Christmas, Mary, by this time driven almost frantic, heard of the arrival of Christian at Chester.

They met by Bailey's contrivance, and Mary came back home pledged to marry her hero.
Delay, however, was necessary.

The marriage could not take place until just before the Indians sailed for Canada, which would be in March, and Mary could obtain delay, only by a kind of compromise.