The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
She had, however, scarcely said so much, when she perceived she was losing the vantage-ground that she had so dexterously occupied, and she turned briskly round and added, 'But, James, why should we fall out about this?--there is time enough before us to consider the subject dispassionately--my father cannot mean that the marriage should take place immediately.'