He says my reputation is ruined.

Surely that is not true ?" She asked the question so innocently and simply that I smiled.
"No, my dear, it is not true," I replied.
"I am sure I cannot understand it," she continued; "but he says so, and insists that my only course is to accept what he calls the advantageous offer which has suddenly presented itself.

He insists very roughly." She shuddered slightly.

"He gives me no peace.

It appears that this creature wrote to ask my father for my hand when we left Rome two months ago.