I regard myself as irrevocably engaged to your daughter; and she, although she has refused to bind herself to me by that special word, is, I am certain, as firmly fixed in her choice as I am in mine.

My happiness, as a matter of course, can be nothing to you." "Not much," said the lawyer, with angry impatience.
Lopez smiled, but he put down the word in his memory and determined that he would treasure it there.

"Not much, at any rate as yet," he said.

"But her happiness must be much to you." "It is everything.

But in thinking of her happiness I must look beyond what might be the satisfaction of the present day.