“A letter of proper submission!” repeated he; “would they have me beg my mother’s pardon for Robert’s ingratitude to her , and breach of honour to me ? I can make no submission. I am grown neither humble nor penitent by what has passed. I am grown very happy; but that would not interest. I know of no submission that is proper for me to make.”

“You may certainly ask to be forgiven,” said Elinor, “because you have offended; and I should think you might now venture so far as to profess some concern for having ever formed the engagement which drew on you your mother’s anger.”

He agreed that he might.