He would not hear of the match.

I was to be had for the asking.

My father was a man who traded in his children, and he had offered me, with a jointure that was a fortune, to the Earl of Ostermore as a wife for his son." Mr.Caryll was listening, all ears.

Some light was being shed upon much that had lain in darkness.
"And so," she proceeded, "your grandfather constrained your father to forget the woman he had left in France, and to marry me.

I know not what sins I had committed that I should have been visited with such a punishment.