'One that any girl must love when asked for her love;--because
he is so sweet, so good, and so pleasant.'
'I know that you are chaffing.'
'Then I went on asking myself questions. And is it possible that
I, who by all his friends will be regarded as a nobody, who am an
American,--with merely human work-a-day blood in her veins,--that
such a one as I should become his wife? Then I told myself that
it was not possible. It was not in accordance with the fitness of
things. All the dukes in England would rise up against it, and
especially that duke whose good will would be imperative.'
'Why should he rise up against it?'
'You know he will. But I will go on with my story of myself. When
I had settled that in my mind, I just cried myself to sleep. It
had been a dream. I had come across one who in his own self seemed
to combine all that I had ever thought of as being lovable in a
man--'
'Isabel!'
'And in his outward circumstances soared as much above my thoughts
as the heaven is above the earth. And he had whispered to me soft
loving, heavenly words.
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