"I could not expect any one to be franker with me than he was.

He went on to inform me that a match between the lady and yourself was greatly desired by the whole family connection, with a single exception, which, however, he did not name, and, while he gave me to understand that he had no reason to fear that, so far as the lady was concerned, my proposal would interfere with your prospects, still, were it known that there was another aspirant in the field, a very undesirable state of things might ensue.

What this state of affairs was he did not state, but I presume it had something to do with the exceptional opposition to which he referred." "And what did you say to all that ?" asked Junius.
"I said very little.

When a man asks me not to come to his house, I don't go.

But, nevertheless, I have fully made up my mind to propose to Miss March as soon as I can get an opportunity.