Suitor

Unsure of which suitor she wanted to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.

She accepted him her suitor.

He began courting her in earnest when he found out that she had another suitor.

Each time, when she had let a suitor out of the door, she would soothe her anger and hatred by beating her stepdaughter.

It occurred to him that he might endeavour to persuade Chloe's father to receive him as her suitor, flattering himself that he was far superior to her other admirers. But there was one obstacle which gave him no little uneasiness: — Lamon, his own father, was not rich; and on remembering this, his chances of success seemed very slender.

He informed him that the nuptials would take place in the autumn, and gave him his right hand in confirmation of his promise that Chloe should wed no other suitor.

Sami was Layla's secret suitor.

"You knew him at that time?" said I. "Yes, I knew him well. In fact, he was an old suitor of mine."

Shortly after, a suitor who was favoured by Lord Stair, and still more so by his lady, paid his addresses to Miss Dalrymple. The young lady refused the proposal, and being pressed on the subject, confessed her secret engagement.

Lady Stair, a woman accustomed to universal submission, for even her husband did not dare to contradict her, treated this objection as a trifle, and insisted upon her daughter yielding her consent to marry the new suitor, David Dunbar, son and heir to David Dunbar of Baldoon, in Wigtonshire.