"Then why not let it be so?"
"There are convenances."
"How would it be if you and I were going without anybody else? Do
you mean to say that in that case we might not sit in the same
carriage?"
"I mean to say that in that case I should not go at all. It isn't
done in England. You have beer in the States so long that you
forget all our old-fashioned ways."
"I do think that is nonsense." She only smiled and shook her head.
"Then the Senator shall go in the phaeton, and I will go with you
and your mother."
"Yes,--and quarrel with mamma all the time as you always do. Let me
have it my own way this time."
"Upon my word I believe you are ashamed of me," he said leaning
back upon the hall table. He had shut the dining-room door and she
was standing close to him.
"What nonsense!"
"You have only got to say so, Arabella, and let there be an end of
it all."
"If you wish it, Mr. Morton."
"You know I don't wish it. You know I am ready to marry you
to-morrow."
"You have made ever so many difficulties as far as I can
understand."
"You have unreasonable people acting for you, Arabella, and of
course I don't mean to give way to them."
"Pray don't talk to me about money. I know nothing about it and
have taken no part in the matter. I suppose there must be
settlements?"
"Of course there must"
"And I can only do what other people tell me.
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