"Isn't it enough for a mere man?"
"Perhaps I shouldn't expect any more, but the idea of deliberately
choosing a man who's in love with your sister! It's hard enough to keep
a husband devoted anyway, and I'd want him to begin by being in love
with me."
"Wouldn't it be just as well if he ended there?"
"You mean that you think he can't help falling in love with Rachel in
the end?"
"Something like that, only I think he's in love with her already."
"Pff! Nothing of the sort; look at his face."
"You couldn't expect a mere man to keep his _sang-froid_ at such a
moment as this?" the doctor retorted, adjusting his eye-glasses to look
at the bridegroom elect.
"At least he needn't look as if he expected to be hung!"
"Oh, that's natural enough, my dear," Macclesfield retorted, with a
chuckle. "Mrs. Billop's got him in tow."
"He looked just the same before she got him, which shows where he is!
It makes me indignant--not on his account, of course you know that!
He's not half good enough for Rachel and he ought to be down on his
knees to get her; but he's mad about Eva. He's been watching Eva all
the time; any one can see it."