easily enough.

About one o'clock in the morning--for so long we sat up together--I
said, "Come, 'tis one o'clock; I must go to bed." "Well," says he, "I'll
go with you." "No, no;" says I; "go to your own chamber." He said he
would go to bed with me. "Nay," says I, "if you will, I don't know what
to say; if I can't help it, you must." However, I got from him, left
him, and went into my chamber, but did not shut the door, and as he
could easily see that I was undressing myself, he steps to his own room,
which was but on the same floor, and in a few minutes undresses himself
also, and returns to my door in his gown and slippers.

I thought he had been gone indeed, and so that he had been in jest; and,
by the way, thought either he had no mind to the thing, or that he never
intended it; so I shut my door--that is, latched it, for I seldom locked
or bolted it--and went to bed. I had not been in bed a minute but he
comes in his gown to the door and opens it a little way, but not enough
to come in or look in, and says softly, "What! are you really gone to
bed?" "Yes, yes," says I; "get you gone." "No, indeed," says he, "I
shall not be gone; you gave me leave before to come to bed, and you
shan't say 'Get you gone' now." So he comes into my room, and then
turns about and fastens the door, and immediately comes to the bedside
to me. I pretended to scold and struggle, and bid him begone with more
warmth than before; but it was all one; he had not a rag of clothes on
but his gown and slippers and shirt, so he throws off his gown, and
throws open the bed, and came in at once.

I made a seeming resistance, but it was no more indeed; for, as above, I
resolved from the beginning he should lie with me if he would, and, for
the rest, I left it to come after.

Well, he lay with me that night, and the two next, and very merry we
were all the three days between; but the third night he began to be a
little more grave. "Now, my dear," says he, "though I have pushed this
matter farther than ever I intended, or than I believe you expected from
me, who never made any pretences to you but what were very honest, yet
to heal it all up, and let you see how sincerely I meant at first, and
how honest I will ever be to you, I am ready to marry you still, and
desire you to let it be done to-morrow morning; and I will give you the
same fair conditions of marriage as I would have done before."

This, it must be owned, was a testimony that he was v