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If Sir Victor Catheron asks you , will you be his wife ? '' She looks at him calmly , steadily , the man she loves , and answers : `` If Sir Victor Catheron asks me , I will be his wife . '' Two days later , and Fastnet Rock looms up against the blue sky ; the iron-bound Irish coast appears . At noon they will land in Queenstown . `` Come back to Erin , mavourneen , mavourneen , '' sings Charley 's voice down the passage , early in the morning . Charley can sing a little still . He is to lose Edith .