Elizabeth Goudge - Robin: When you marry, will you marry?Maria: I have not...

Robin: When you marry, will you marry?Maria: I have not quite decided yet, but I think I shall marry a boy I knew in London. Robin(yells): What? Marry some mincing nincompoop of a Londoner with silk stockings and a pomade in his hair and face like a Cheshire cheese? You dare do such a thing! You - Maria - if you marry a London man I'll wring his neck! (..) I'll not only wring his neck, I'll wring everybody's necks, and I'll go right away out of the valley, over the hills to the town where my father came from, and I won't ever come back here again. So there!(..)Maria: Why don't you want me to marry that London boy?Robin(shouting): Because you are going to marry. Do you hear, Maria? You are going to marry.