I, on the other hand, am the legal adviser of the young lady's family, and, in that capacity, I considered it my duty to protest very energetically against the match in question.

But when they placed those precious papers in my hands, I said at once that they must marry her to this man in any case.

Otherwise they would have fancied I was advocating your crazy hopes, that I was an interested party and simply opposed the family candidate in order to smuggle in a kinsman of my own in his stead.

That idea I was determined to knock out of their heads, happen what would.

But that of course you do not understand.