Have you lived in the same house with him all these years and do you not better know his character than to think that you may go to him with the tale you have just told me, and that he will forgive you?
Feel as you will toward me, but believe me when I swear to you by my knighthood that I will betray to no person what you have this day divulged to me." Dorothy made no reply, but turned from me and rapidly walked toward the Hall.

I followed at a short distance, and all my anger was displaced by fear for her.

When we reached the Hall she quickly sought her father and approached him in her old free manner, full of confidence in her influence over him.
"Father, this man"-- waving her hand toward me--"has come to Haddon Hall a-fortune-hunting.

He has asked me to be his wife, and says you wish me to accept him." "Yes, Doll, I certainly wish it with all my heart," returned Sir George, affectionately, taking his daughter's hand.
"Then you need wish it no longer, for I will not marry him." "What ?" demanded her father, springing to his feet.
"I will not.

I will not.