Besides, I had discovered all I wanted to know.

She was no longer the reckless, defiant creature whom I had heard and seen, on the occasion of my martyrdom in Montagu Square.

This was, of itself, enough to encourage me to take her future conversion in hand--beginning with a few words of earnest warning directed against the hasty formation of the marriage tie, and so getting on to higher things.

Looking at her, now, with this new interest--and calling to mind the headlong suddenness with which she had met Mr.Godfrey's matrimonial views--I felt the solemn duty of interfering with a fervour which assured me that I should achieve no common results.

Rapidity of proceeding was, as I believed, of importance in this case.