Frederick Sutherland was a man of finer mental balance than he himself, perhaps, had ever realised. After the first few moments of stupefaction following the astounding alternative which had been given him, he broke out with the last sentence she probably expected to hear:
"What do you hope from a marriage with me, that to attain your wishes you thus sacrifice every womanly instinct?"
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