To illustrate my meaning, Jack, suppose you were in love with a blind girl, and someone said to you, 'In a month's time her sight will be restored,' would you not wait till after she was cured, to marry her ?" "Faith, to be sure I would!" exclaimed Jack.
"Well, Jack, Nell is at present blind; and before she marries me, I wish her to see what I am, and what the life really is to which she would bind herself.

In short, she must have daylight let in upon the subject!" "Well said, Harry! Very well said indeed!" cried Jack.

"Now I see what you are driving at.

And when may we expect the operation to come off ?" "In a month, Jack," replied Harry.

"Nell is getting used to the light of our reflectors.