Whether affected by the violence of the attack made on him, or from other cause, Everett had been unwell after the affair, and had kept his room for a fortnight.

During this time Lopez came to see him daily, and daily Emily Wharton had to take herself out of the man's way, and hide herself from the man's sight.
This she did with much tact and with lady-like quietness, but not without an air of martyrdom, which cut her father to the quick.

"My dear," he said to her one evening, as she was preparing to leave the drawing-room on hearing his knock, "stop and see him if you like it." "Papa!" "I don't want to make you wretched.

If I could have died first, and got out of the way, perhaps it would have been better." "Papa, you will kill me if you speak in that way! If there is anything to say to him, do you say it." And then she escaped.
Well! It was an added bitterness, but no doubt it was his duty.

If he did intend to consent to the marriage, it certainly was for him to signify that consent to the man.