We were engaged a week ago, with the full knowledge and consent of Doctor and Mrs.Jessop, her nearest friends." "And of yours ?" asked Mr.Brithwood, with as much sarcasm as his blunt wits could furnish him.
"I have no relatives." "So I always understood.

And that being the case, may I ask the meaning of the visit?
Where are your lawyers, your marriage settlements, hey?
I say, young man--ha! ha! I should like to know what you can possibly want with me, Miss March's trustee ?" "Nothing whatever.

Miss March, as you are aware, is by her father's will left perfectly free in her choice of marriage; and she has chosen.
But since, under certain circumstances, I wish to act with perfect openness, I came to tell you, as her cousin and the executor of this will, that she is about to become my wife." And he lingered over that name, as if its very utterance strengthened and calmed him.
"May I inquire into those 'certain circumstances' ?" asked the other, still derisively.
"You know them already.

Miss March has a fortune and I have none; and though I wish that difference were on the other side--though it might and did hinder me from seeking her--yet now she is sought and won, it shall not hinder my marrying her." "Likely not," sneered Mr.Brithwood.
John's passion was rising again.
"I repeat, it shall not hinder me.

The world may say what it chooses; we follow a higher law than the world--she and I.