He was by no means satisfied with himself.

He felt that he had been rude and at the same time not decisive.

He had not explained to the man as he would wish to have done, that it was monstrous and out of the question that a daughter of the Whartons, one of the oldest families in England, should be given to a friendless Portuguese,--a probable Jew,--about whom nobody knew anything.

Then he remembered that sooner or later his girl would have at least L60,000, a fact of which no human being but himself was aware.

Would it not be well that somebody should be made aware of it, so that his girl might have the chance of suitors preferable to this swarthy son of Judah?
He began to be afraid, as he thought of it, that he was not managing his matters well.