"Of course your aunt was delighted to have you with her again." "Oh," said Mrs Null, with a laugh, "she was not at home when I arrived, but when she returned nothing could be too good for me.

Why, she had been here scarcely half an hour, and hadn't taken off her sun-bonnet, before she told me I was to marry Junius and we two were to have this farm." "A very pleasant plan, truly," said Mr Brandon.
"But then, you see," continued the young girl, "Mr Null stood dreadfully in the way of such an arrangement; and when Aunt Keswick heard about him you can't imagine what a change came over her." "Oh, yes I can; yes I can," exclaimed Mr Brandon--"I can imagine it very well." "But she didn't give up a bit," said Mrs Null.

"I don't think she ever does give up." "You are right, there," said Mr Brandon, "quite right.

But what does she propose to do ?" "I don't know, I'm sure; but she said I had no right to marry without the consent of my surviving relatives, and that she was going to look into it.

I can't think what she means by that." Mr Brandon made no immediate answer.