"Frank and I are content to wait; and I'm sure we would rather not have any one speak to Mr.Buxton, upon a subject which evidently gives him so much pain; please, Edward, don't!" "Well, well.

Only I must go about this property of his.

Besides, I don't mean to get into disgrace; so I shan't seem to know anything about it, if it would make him angry.

I want to keep on good terms, because of the agency.

So, perhaps, I shall shake my head, and think it great presumption in you, Maggie, to have thought of becoming his daughter-in-law.