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“I will marry you, Mistress Clare.”

She stared at him incredulously. “Are you quite mad?”

“Not at all. You are a wealthy heiress. The proposal seems perfectly fair to me.”

“I shall never consent to become your wife,” she said through clenched teeth. “You cannot force me.”

“Mistress Clare, may I remind you that you are in my power—totally within my power?”

“Then I must do as you say,” she said, her eyes filling with tears.