Mr. Knightley is making you a proposal of marriage.
. . .
If you wish to refuse him, suddenly doubting whether you could truly be happy with a man who is almost twice your age and who might continue to “blame” and “lecture” you to the end of your days, turn to page 229. A leopard rarely changes his spots.
― Emma Campbell Webster, Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
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