It's useless to ask you to alter your mind.

I only ask you to wait a little.
There is plenty of time before the wedding-day.

Something may happen which will spare you the necessity of enlightening Lucilla with your own lips." "What can happen ?" I asked.
"Lucilla may yet see him, as we see him," Nugent answered.

"Lucilla's own eyes may discover the truth." "What! have you not abandoned the mad notion of curing her blindness, yet ?" "I will abandon my notion when the German surgeon tells me it is mad.

Not before." "Have you said anything about it to Oscar ?" "Not a word.