"Perhaps I'm in a box, or a hole, or whatever else you like to call it, but it's too late too back down now--I must push ahead and win.

You see the case is this: I love the girl and had her brought here to keep her from another man.

By hook or crook I'm going to make her my wife.

She won't take kindly to that at first, perhaps, but I'll make her happy in the end.

In one way this delay has been a good thing.