A woman here might successively marry all the men whom she might successively fancy, and thus enjoy a perpetual gush of the affections and an unruffled current of happiness.
To such extreme views had this excellent creature been led by brooding over what she called the wrongs of her sex and the legal tyranny of the other.
But we must return to Coronado and Clara.

The man had come up to the pueblo on purpose to have a plain talk with the girl and learn exactly what she meant to do with him.

It was now more than a week since he had offered himself, and in that time she had made no sign which indicated her purpose.

He had looked at her and sighed at her without getting a response of any sort.

This could not go on; he must know how she felt towards him; he must know how much, she cared for Thurstane.