"You proposed to that American?"
"Yes. And she accepted me."
"How could you Robert."
"Of all the women out there who suit our needs, she was the one I disliked the least."
"But you do dislike her."
"I don't know. I certainly don't love her, but as Papa put it so eloquently, we cannot afford to wait until I am in love. So I'll just marry without it. If we don't get along, she can go back to America once she has produced an heir. Although I doubt that she'd do that. She strikes me as the type of woman who'd care about her children. But we'd have something in common then, because I will care about my children too."