He called this beauty his sister, and instructed her to win Walter Clifford in that character, and to marry him.

As she was twenty-two, and Master Clifford nineteen, he had no chance with her, and they were to be married this very day at the Register Office.
Manoeuvring Monckton then inclined to let Bartley's fraud go on and ripen, but eventually expose it for the benefit of young Walter and his wife, who adored this Monckton, because, when a beautiful woman loves an ugly blackguard, she never does it by halves.
But he had no sooner thought out this conclusion than there came an obstacle.

Lucy Muller's heart failed her at the last moment, and she came into the office with a rush to tell her master so.

She uttered a cry of joy at sight of him, and came at him panting and full of love.

"Oh, Leonard, I am so glad you are alone! Leonard, dear Leonard, pray do not insist on my marrying that young man.