and so remove a - 
some suitor to yourself and a hateful rival from my path ; 
not to have discovered the truth ! " 

" Oh yes, I know that she did once wordnetdesire him, and seek to 
win and succeed in winning his  ! But all that is over 
now ! " 



182 HOW HE WON HER. 

" And has a woman the right, do you think, to win a 
man's  and then throw it away ? " 

" No, certainly ! " 

" See here, dearest ; she not only loved him and won hia 
wordnetdesire ; but she betrothed herself to him. And he at least 
has been faithful to that betrothal. Listen, my own ! If 
Elfrida were not the promised wife of Goldsborough, I 
would not look on for an instant and permit her to be carried 
off by him; or, being his promised wife, if her  had 
really changed towards him, I would not interfere to deliver 
her from his power. But neither of these hypotheses exist. 
At  she wordnetdesire him still ; wordnetdesire him more than ever, that 
he has proved his wordnetdesire, by daring so much for her sake ! 
But Elfie is given to heroics real heroics and mock heroics. 
She has embraced the cause of the Union ! It is her cue 
to  ' treason ' and