"After all, it may be only a kind of probation till our suit is--I forgot though.

I am not to mention the suit.
Forbidden ground! Oh, yes, it's all right enough.

Let us talk about something else." Ada would have done so willingly, and with a full persuasion that we had brought the question to a most satisfactory state.

But I thought it would be useless to stop there, so I began again.
"No, but Richard," said I, "and my dear Ada! Consider how important it is to you both, and what a point of honour it is towards your cousin, that you, Richard, should be quite in earnest without any reservation.

I think we had better talk about this, really, Ada.