In order that Miss March might not fail to hear of this post-connubial arrangement, she had been informed of it by letter.

Of course this had broken off the engagement, for Roberta would not live under a curse, nor would she tear a man from the only near relative he had in the world.

Keswick himself, like most men, would have been willing to have this tearing take place for the sake of uniting himself to such a charming creature as Roberta March.

But the lady on one side was as inflexible as the lady on the other, and the engagement was definitely and absolutely ended.
Mr Brandon considered all this as stuff and nonsense.

He could not deny that his branch of the Brandons had certainly got a good deal out of Mrs Keswick's family.