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Hin die Wakes 229
already sees Fanny as the mistress of the Jeffcote
estate. She persuades her husband to go immedi
ately to the Jeffcotes, and though it is
very late at
night, the old man is forced to start out on his dis
agreeable errand.
Jeffcote, a man of integrity, is much shocked at
the news brought to him by old Hawthorne.
Nevertheless he will not countenance the wrong.
Jeffcote. I ll see you re treated right. Do you hear?
Christopher. I can t ask for more than that.
Jeffcote. I ll see you re treated right.
Young Alan had never known responsibility.
Why should he, with so much wealth awaiting
him? When confronted by his father and told
that he must marry Fanny, he fights hard against
it. It may be said, in justice to Alan, that he
really loves his betrothed, Beatrice, though such a
circumstance has never deterred the Alans from
having a lark with another girl.
The young man resents his father s command to
marry the mill girl. But when even Beatrice in
sists that he belongs to Fanny, Alan unwillingly
consents. Beatrice, a devout Christian, believes
in renunciation.
Beatrice. I do need you, Alan. So much that noth
ing on earth could make me break off our engagement,
if I felt that it was at all possible to let it go on. But
it isn t. It s impossible.
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