Would she break her heart, do you think, if she does not become Mrs.Reginald Stanford?
June is the time, but there is many a slip.

I know what your answer will be--'She will break her heart if she does!' It is a bad business, old boy; but it is fate, or we will say so--and hazel eyes and auburn curls are very, very tempting.
"You used to think a good deal of Captain Danton, if I recollect right.

By the way, how old is the Captain?
I ask, because there is a housekeeper here, who is a distant cousin, one of the family, very quiet, sensible, lady-like, and six and twenty, who may be Mrs.Captain Danton one day.

Mind, I don't say for certain, but I have my suspicions.

He couldn't do better.