" Do you understand the stakes involved?”
“Other than the financial ones?”
“What other kind of stakes could there be?”
Matthew sent him a sardonic glance. “Your daughter’s heart. Her future happiness. Her—”
“Bah! People don’t marry to be happy. Or if they do, they soon discover it’s hog-swill.”
Despite his black mood, Matthew smiled slightly. “If you’re hoping to inspire me in the direction of wedlock,” he said, “it’s not working. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers, #4)