"But I'm afraid your aunts might make it a little uncomfortable for her, if she--tried to alter anything.

I--go my own way now, and don't mind--but a young bride--does not always like to be found fault with.

She might find that relations-in-law are sometimes--a little trying." Lady Mary felt, as she spoke these words, that she was somehow opening a way for herself as well as for Peter.

She wondered, with a beating heart, whether the moment had come in which she ought to tell him-- "That's just it," said Peter's voice, breaking in on her thoughts.
"That's just what Sarah means, and what I was trying to lead up to; only I'm no diplomatist.

But that's one of the greatest objections she has to marrying me, quite apart from disappointing her aunt.