human
Come, come, he said, roughly:
gpt
I've had enough of all this sham beseeching. I know what it means. Trelyon is a richer man than I am: she has let her idle girlish notions go dreaming day-dreams, and so I am expected to stand aside. There has been enough of this nonsense. She is not a child; she knows what she undertook of her own free will; and she knows she can get rid of this school-girl fancy directly if she chooses. I, for one, won't help her to disgrace herself.
human
You will try to make her marry you?
gpt
I will try to do nothing of the sort, said he.
human
She can do as she likes. But she knows what an honorable woman would do.
gpt
And I, said Mabyn, her temper at length quite getting the better of her,
human
I know what an honorable man would do. He would refuse to bind a girl to a promise which she fears. He would consider her happiness to be of more importance than his comfort. Why, I don't believe you care at all whether Wenna marries you or not: it is only you can't bear her being married to the man she really does love. It is only envy, that's what it is. Oh, I am ashamed to think there is a man alive who would force a girl into becoming his wife on such terms!
gpt
There is certainly one considerable objection to my marrying your sister, said he with great politeness.
human
The manners of some of her relatives might prove embarrassing.
gpt
Yes, that is true enough, Mabyn said with hot cheeks.
human
If ever I became a relative of yours, my manners no doubt would embarrass you very considerably. But I am not a relative of yours as yet, nor is my sister.
gpt
May I consider that you have said what you had to say?