"
"Well, my dear, perhaps they will!"
"Please don't say that," Catherine answered gently, as they walked
along. "Poor father will be disappointed."
Morris gave a little laugh. "Yes, I verily believe that your poor
father will be disappointed! But you will have seen Europe," he
added humorously. "What a take-in!"
"I don't care for seeing Europe," Catherine said.
"You ought to care, my dear. And it may mollify your father."
Catherine, conscious of her obstinacy, expected little of this, and
could not rid herself of the idea that in going abroad and yet
remaining firm, she should play her father a trick. "Don't you think
it would be a kind of deception?" she asked.
"Doesn't he want to deceive you?" cried Morris. "It will serve him
right! I really think you had better go."
"And not be married for so long?"
"Be married when you come back. You can buy your wedding clothes in
Paris." And then Morris, with great kindness of tone, explained his
view of the matter. It would be a good thing that she should go; it
would put them completely in the right. It would show they were
reasonable and willing to wait. Once they were so sure of each
other, they could afford to wait--what had they to fear? If there
was a particle of chance that her father would be favourably affected
by her going, that ought to settle it; for, after all, Morris was
very unwilling to be the cause of her being disinherited.
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