There's no knowing when that may be." "And why should there be no knowing?
I always think that when a girl is once engaged the sooner she's married the better.

There may be reasons for delay on the gentleman's part." "There very often are, you know," "But, Alice, you don't mean to say that Mr Grey is putting it off ?" Alice was silent for a moment, during which Lady Macleod's face assumed a look of almost tragic horror.

Was there something wrong on Mr Grey's side of which she was altogether unaware?
Alice, though for a second or two she had been guilty of a slight playful deceit, was too honest to allow the impression to remain.

"No, aunt," she said; "Mr Grey is not putting it off.

It has been left to me to fix the time." "And why don't you fix it ?" "It is such a serious thing! After all it is not more than four months yet since I--I accepted him.