That is a contingency never to arise.

I have told Marian a great deal about you already.

She knows that I owe my life to you, and she is prepared to value you as much as I do." "She is very good; but all wives promise that kind of thing before marriage.

And there is apt to come a day when the familiar bachelor friend falls under the domestic taboo, together with smoking in the drawing-room, brandy-and-soda, and other luxuries of the old, easy-going, single life." "Marian is not very likely to prove a domestic tyrant.

She is the gentlest dearest girl, and is very well used to bachelor habits in the person of her uncle.