You
know how frank I am with you, giving you credit for honest, sound good
sense. To me and to my girls, who know you as a lady, you are as dear a
friend as though you were--anything you may please to think. Lucy Morris
is to us our own dear, dear little friend Lucy. But Mr. Greystock, who is
a member of Parliament, could not marry a governess."
"But I love him so dearly," said Lucy, getting up from her chair, "that
his slightest word is to me more than all the words of all the world
beside. It is no use, Lady Fawn. I do love him, and I don't mean to try to
give it up." Lady Fawn stood silent for a moment, and then suggested that
it would be better for them both to go to bed. During that minute she had
been unable to decide what she had better say or do in the present
emergency.
CHAPTER VIII
THE CONQUERING HERO COMES
The reader will perhaps remember that when Lizzie Eustace was told that
her aunt was down-stairs Frank Greystock was with her, and that he
promised to return on the following day to hear the result of the
interview. Had Lady Linlithgow not come at that very moment Frank would
probably have asked his rich cousin to be his wife.
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