He will handle that point after marriage.

He 's as you see him there: a young man without many ideas, but with a very firm grasp of a single one--the conviction that Prince Casamassima is a very great person, that he greatly honors any young lady by asking for her hand, and that things are going very strangely when the young lady turns her back upon him.

The poor young man, I am sure, is profoundly perplexed.

But I whisper to him every day, 'Pazienza, Signor Principe!'" "So you firmly believe," said Rowland, in conclusion, "that Miss Light will accept him just in time not to lose him!" "I count upon it.

She would make too perfect a princess to miss her destiny." "And you hold that nevertheless, in the mean while, in listening to, say, my friend Hudson, she will have been acting in good faith ?" The Cavaliere lifted his shoulders a trifle, and gave an inscrutable smile.