"But how, my dear fellow? Prevent it! It's all very well to say that, and it's the very thing I want to do. But how am I to prevent it? She's as much her own master as you are yours. She can give him every shilling of her fortune to-morrow. How am I to prevent her from marrying him?"
"Let her give him every shilling of her fortune to-morrow," said Grey.
"And what is she to do then?" asked Mr. Vavasor.

"But how, my dear fellow? She's as much her own master as you are yours. She can give him every shilling of her fortune tomorrow. How am I to prevent her from marrying him?"
"Let her give him every shilling of her fortune tomorrow," said Grey.
"And what is she to do then?" asked Mr. Vavasor.
