there 
are other . There is your sister engaged to this 
fellow out in Jamaica  " 

" Isn't he a horried wretch ! " said Mabyn between her 
teeth. 

" Oh, I quite agree with you. If I could have it out with 
him now  but after all, what harm has the man done ? Is 
it any  he wanted to get Wenna for a wife ? " 

"Oh, but he cheated her," said Mabyn, warmly. "He 
persuaded her, and reasoned with her, and argued her into 
marrying him. And what business had he to tell her that 
wordnetdesire between young people is all  and trial ; and 
that a girl is only safe when she marries a prudent and elderly 
man who will look after her ? Why, it is to look after him 
that he wordnetdesire her. Wenna is going to him as a housekeeper 
and a nurse. Only  only, Mr. Trelyon, she hasn't gone to 
him just yet /" 

" Oh, I don't think he did anything unfair," the young man 
said, gloomily. " It doesn't matter anyhow. What I was 
going to say is that my grandmother's notion of what one of 
our family ought to do in such a case can't be carried out : 
whatever