It would never have come to anything, one might see that.

Old Buxton would have held out against it till doomsday.

And, sooner or later, Frank would have grown weary.

If Maggie had had any spirit, she might have worked him up to marry her before now; and then I should have been spared even this fright, for they would never have set the police after Mrs.Frank Buxton's brother." "Why, dearest, Edward, the police are not after you, are they ?" said Mrs.
Browne, for the first time alive to the urgency of the case.
"I believe they are though," said Edward.

"But after what Mr.Buxton promised this morning, it does not signify." "He did not promise anything," said Maggie.
Edward turned sharply to her, and looked at her.