"Dear Lady Carbury, I would place no dependence at all on such a promise as that."
"You think he should marry the girl then in spite of the father?"
Mr. Broune hesitated before he replied to this question. But it was to this question that Lady Carbury especially wished for a reply. She wanted some one to support her under the circumstances of an elopement. She rose from her chair, and he rose at the same time. "Perhaps I should have begun by saying that Felix is all but prepared to take her off. She is quite ready to go. She is devoted to him. Do you think he would be wrong?"

"Dear Lady Carbury, I would place no dependence at all on such a promise as that."
"You think he should marry the girl then, in spite of the father?"
Mr. Broune hesitated before he replied. But Lady Carbury wanted someone to support her in her view of an elopement.
"Felix is all but prepared to take her off. She is quite ready to go. She is devoted to him. Do you think he would be wrong?"
