"How is it, Clarissa?" Michael asked her instead. "Will you accept my proposal?"
Clarissa could not give an answer. She thought Michael was being too hasty. At least he was trying to melt her parents' hearts first instead of proposing to her.
"I don't know," Clarissa replied. "Everything was too sudden."
Michael raised his eyebrows. "Two years, and you say it's sudden?" Michael smiled. "Are you going to let Phillips grow up without a clear social status?"
"How rude of you, Michael!" George was emotional. "You consider my grandson to have no status? You want to say that he's an illegitimate child!"
"No, Phillips is not a bastard, Lord McLaren." Morris tried to mediate between them. "Phillips is also my grandson. He deserves the name, Carson."
"That's how easily you can claim Phillips
