Take the warning, and go!" "I won't even rise from my knees, till you have said yes!" "If I say yes you will repent, and I shall repent, when it is too late!" "We shall both bless the day, darling, when I pressed, and when you yielded." "Do you feel as confidently as you speak ?" "You shall judge for yourself.

I speak from what I have seen in my own family.

Tell me what you think of our household at Frizinghall.

Do my father and mother live unhappily together ?" "Far from it--so far as I can see." "When my mother was a girl, Rachel (it is no secret in the family), she had loved as you love--she had given her heart to a man who was unworthy of her.

She married my father, respecting him, admiring him, but nothing more.