Only a flower she gave him! Well---- "What do _you_ think ?" asks Hardinge after a long pause.
"It is a matter on which I could not think." "But there is this," says Hardinge.

"You will forward my cause rather than your brother's, will you not?
This is an extraordinary demand to make I know--but--I also know _you_." "I would rather see her dead than married to my brother," says the professor, slowly, distinctly.
"And---- ?" questions Hardinge.
The professor hesitates a moment, and then: "What do you want me to do ?" asks he.
"Do?
'Say a good word for me' to her; that is the old way of putting it, isn't it?
and it expresses all I mean.

She reveres you, even if----" "If what ?" "She revolts from your power over her.

She is high-spirited, you know," says Hardinge.

"That is one of her charms, in my opinion.