I owe her too much; ingratitude in me would be doubly base.

I will speak to her.

I will tell her all you have said, and if she gives me the faintest encouragement----' 'She will not; that is a foregone conclusion.

Tell her all, if you like; but let us be prepared for the answer.

When she denies the right of your heart to choose its own mate, then rise up in the might of your womanhood and defy her.