She could consent to become the wife of the man who had squandered his property and wasted his estate; but not of one who before his marriage demanded of her that submission which, as she thought, should be given by her freely after her marriage.

Harry Annesley glided into her heart after a manner very different from this.

She knew that he adored her, but yet he did not hasten to tell her so.

She knew that she loved him, but she doubted whether a time would ever come in which she could confess it.

It was not till he had come to acknowledge the trouble to which Mountjoy had subjected him that he had ever ventured to speak plainly of his own passion, and even then he had not asked for a reply.