She was quite sure of that.
Though she thought so well of him there was, she was quite sure, no feeling in her heart akin to love.

She had promised to take time because she had thought that she might perhaps be able to bring herself to marry him without loving him,--to marry him because her father wished it, and because her going from home would be a relief to her stepmother and sisters, because it would be well for them all that she should be settled out of the way.

But since that she had made up her mind,--she thought that she had quite made up her mind,--that it would be impossible.
"There is nobody else, Mary ?" said Lady Ushant putting her hand on to Mary's lap.

Mary protested that there was nobody else without any consciousness that she was telling a falsehood.

"And you are quite sure that you cannot do it ?" "Do you think that I ought, Lady Ushant ?" "I should be very sorry to say that, my dear.