Why not arrange another marriage for her, before this affair with Sir Hastings goes too far ?" "There are two parties to a marriage," says the professor, his tone always very low.

"Who is it to whom you propose to marry Miss Wynter ?" Hardinge, getting up, moves abruptly to the window and back again.
"You have known me a long time, Curzon," says he at last.

"You--you have been my friend.

I have family--position--money--I----" "I am to understand then, that _you_ are a candidate for the hand of my ward," says the professor, slowly, so slowly that it might suggest itself to a disinterested listener that he has great difficulty in speaking at all.
"Yes," says Hardinge, very diffidently.

He looks appealingly at the professor.