Please, please, take a little time--it will be so much wiser.

I will wait for you for ever, or I will promise to marry you a year from to-day, even if we have to live on bread and water.

Indeed I will! But, at least, be a little cautious! It will be far better to marry on your pay--and you will surely get your captaincy in a few months--than to be stranded without even that, in case you do not find the work you hope for.

Don't you see?
I am sure it is good advice.' Giovanni knew that it was, if caution were ever worth practising in human affairs; but that has often been doubted by brave and light-hearted men.

Giovanni yielded a little reluctantly.