"Your idea of the 'fusion' of races is well enough in theory, but it will not do brought into practice.

I have been patient with you--I have treated you, not as a school boy whose head is half turned by his first love, but as a sensible man endowed with reason and thought.

Now give me a reward.

Promise me here that you will make a brave effort, give up all foolish thoughts of Dora Thorne, and not see her again.

Go abroad for a year or two--you will soon forget this boyish folly, and bless the good sense that has saved you from it.