Why Did Hastings and Miss Neville Plan to Elope?

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Why did Hastings and Miss Neville plan to elope In She Stoops to Conquer George Hastings and Miss Constance Neville are in love But they face many problems Constance's aunt Mrs Hardcastle does not want them to marry She wants Constance to marry her son Tony That is why Hastings and Constance plan to elope and marry in secret Strict Guardian Mrs Hardcastle is Miss Neville's aunt and guardian She wants Constance to marry her cousin Tony Lumpkin She also wants to keep Constance s fortune in the family She says Indeed Constance you amaze me Such a girl as you want jewels It will be time enough for jewels my dear twenty years hence when your beauty begins to want repairs But Constance and Tony do not love each other Mrs Hardcastle does not listen to Constance s wish So Constance decides to run away with Hastings True Love

Hastings and Constance truly love each other Hastings does not care about her money He only wants to marry her He is ready to marry without the jewels But Constance is careful She wants to keep her fortune So she plans to take the jewels with her before they run away Tony s Support Tony also helps them He does not want to marry Constance He knows his mother is wrong So he steals the casket of jewels and gives it to Hastings When Hastings asks how he got the jewels he says Ask me no questions and I ll tell you no fibs Tony s help shows that he wants them to be happy But later by mistake the jewels go back to Mrs Hardcastle again In conclusion Hastings and Miss Neville plan to elope because they want to escape control Mrs Hardcastle s greed and pressure make them act in secret They wish to marry freely Their plan shows their deep love courage and cleverness

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