That is why I went into that infernal business, to make enough money to be able to ask you to marry me.
And now I have gone out of the business and asked you just when I shouldn't." "Yes, so you see you might as well have done it a year or two ago when perhaps things would have been simpler.

Well, it is a fine example of the vanity of human plans, and, Alan, we must be going home to lunch.

If we don't, Sir Robert will be organizing a search party to look for us; in fact, I shouldn't wonder if he is doing that already, in the wrong direction." The mention of Sir Robert Aylward's name fell on them both like a blast of cold wind in summer, and for a while they walked in silence.
"You are afraid of that man, Barbara," said Alan presently, guessing her thoughts.
"A little," she answered, "so far as I can be afraid of anything any more.

And you ?" "A little also.

I think that he will give us trouble.