"You can get her here before they go ?" he said.
"She wouldn't come;--and if we arranged it without letting her know that you were to be here, she would tell her father.

She hasn't a particle of female intrigue in her." "So much the better," said the lover.
"That's all very well for you to say, but when a man makes such a tyrant of himself as Mr.Wharton is doing, a girl is bound to look after herself.

If it was me I'd go off with my young man before I'd stand such treatment." "You could give her a letter." "She'd only show it her father.

She is so perverse that I sometimes feel inclined to say that I'll have nothing further to do with her." "You'll give her a message at any rate ?" "Yes,--I can do that;--because I can do it in a way that won't seem to make it important." "But I want my message to be very important.

Tell her that I've seen her father, and have offered to explain all my affairs to him,--so that he may know that there is nothing to fear on her behalf." "It isn't any thought of money that is troubling him." "But tell her what I say.