"A caprice, a fancy, a thing that may be guided, overcome or compelled as the occasion shall demand.

Opportunity is love's parent, Hogan, and given that, any maid may love any man.

Cynthia shall love my son." "But if she prove rebellious?
If she say nay to your proposals?
There are such women." "How then?
Am I not the stronger?
In such a case it shall be mine to compel her, and as I find her, so shall I carry her away.

It will be none so poor a vengeance on the Ashburns after all." His brow grew clouded.

"But not what I had dreamed of; what I should have taken had he not cheated me.