There, don't worry any more about the matter.

You ought to have told me of your troubles before, but as I have forgiven you, there is no more to be said.

In six months I shall become Mrs.Hope, and meanwhile I can hold my own against any inconvenience that my father may cause me." "But--" He rose and began to remonstrate, anxious to abase himself still further before this angel of a maiden.
She placed her hand over his mouth.

"Not another word, or I shall box your ears, sir--that is, I shall exercise the privilege of a wife before I become one.

And now," she slipped her arm within his, "let us go in and see the arrival of the precious mummy." "Oh, it has arrived then." "Not here exactly.