But I am unhappy as regards some circumstances connected with it.

Your disapproval, Clara, for one.

My dear cousin, I owe so much to you, that I want to owe you more.

Now, I have a proposition--a promise--to make to you.

I am now so sure, so very sure and certain, that you will want me to marry Miss Aglen--and no one else--when you once know her, that I will engage solemnly not to marry her unless you entirely approve.