"I_ know what I mean always.

And as I tell you, if you _have_ come here to-day to lay before me, for my consideration, the name of another of your friends who wishes to marry me, why I beg you to save me from suitors.

I can make my choice from many, and when I _do_ want to marry, I shall choose for myself." "Still--if you would permit me to name _this_ one," begins Curzon, very humbly, "it can do you no harm to hear of him.

And it all lies in your own power.

You can, if you will, say yes, or----".