am 
going to speak to you as freely as under any circumstances I 
could have done." 

" But you are not going to treat the matter in what you and 
Emily call a tragical  ; that is evident." 

" No ; and I am now going to give you some really excellent 
advice, which, I assure you, I have considered deeply. I advise 
you, without any further delay, to go to Margarita, and tell her 
she must marry you,  say you insist upon it, and make her do 
it." 

" Make her ! " he exclaimed, starting up ; " make her,"  but 
he could not help laughing,  " how can you give me such ridicu- 
lous advice, you spiteful fairy % " 

" I am in earnest, I assure you. I do not mean that you are 
to say it in so many words, though even that might have a very 
good effect. But you must get the mastery over her  you easily 
can ; and I have no doubt, if the real truth was known, that you 
not only could get almost any woman to marry you (who does 
not  for some one else), but that you think so I " 

The tragical element was overcome. To my  he laughed, 
and declared that he never could