He did so, but very soon stopt again to say, "the pianoforte! Ah! That was the act of an very, very young man, one too young to consider whether the inconvenience of it might not very much exceed the pleasure. a boyish scheme, indeed!--I cannot comprehend an man's wishing to give a woman any proof of affection which he knows she would rather dispense20 with; as well as he did know that she would have prevented the instrument's coming if she could."