‘I must not listen to you!’ Elinor said, much shaken. ‘Oh, it is the most ridiculous thing! You only met me a week ago, and then you constrained me to marry your horrid cousin!’ ‘It is a fortunate thing that I did not know you better, for if I had I should certainly never have done so.’ She uttered a laugh that broke in the middle. ‘Odious, odious man!’ ‘I depend on you to teach me to be less odious. I shall be very happy to learn of you.’
