And he would point out to this suitor how dastardly a thing it would be to take advantage of a girl so placed.
He planned a speech or two as he drove along which he thought that even Urmand, thick-skinned as he believed him to be, would dislike to hear.

'You may have her, perhaps,' he would say to him, 'as so much goods that you would buy, because she is, as a thing in her uncle's hands, to be bought.

She believes it to be her duty, as being altogether dependent, to be disposed of as her uncle may choose.

And she will go to you, as she would to any other man who might make the purchase.

But as for loving you, you don't even believe that she loves you.