You are going to have a terrible time until you
marry me."
They were at Thebes, and he went off that afternoon to the Temple of
Luxor with her mother, and made violent use of the sacred altars, the
beauty of Cleopatra, the eternity of the scarabea, and the
indestructibility of the Pyramids to suggest faintly to Mrs. Warriner
how much he loved her daughter. He shook his hand at the crouching
sphinxes and said:
"Mrs. Warriner, in forty centuries they have never looked down upon a
man as proud as I am, and I am told they have seen Napoleon; but I
need help; she won't help me, so you must. It's no use arguing
against me. When this Nile dries up I shall have ceased loving your
daughter!"
"Did you tell Helen what you have told me? Did you talk to her so?"
asked Mrs. Warriner.
"No, not last night," said Corbin; "but I will, in time, after she
gets more used to the Idea."
Unfortunately for the peace of Mr. Corbin and all concerned. Miss
Warriner did not become reconciled to the idea. On the contrary, she
resented it greatly. She had looked at the possibility of something
to be carried out later--much later, perhaps not at all.
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