"I think I ought to tell you," she continued, "what he's coming for."
She gave him the gist of her conversation with Ashley on the previous
day and the one great decision to which they had led him up. It would
have gratified Ashley, could he have overheard, to note the skill with
which she conveyed precisely that quality of noble precipitancy in his
words and resolutions which he himself feared they had lacked. If a
slight suspicion could have risen in his mind, it would have been that
of a certain haste on her part to forestall any possible questioning of
his eagerness such as he had occasion to observe in himself. That might
have wounded him.
"So he wants to go ahead," Guion said, when she had finished.
"Apparently."
"Can't he do that and still leave things as they are?"
"He seems to think he can't."
"I don't see why. If I have to owe the money to any one, I'd rather owe
it to Davenant."
"So should I."
"Do you really want to marry him?"