"Always, always. As regards this," and he struck himself on the breast,
"no man was ever more constant. Though I don't think much of myself as a
man, I know a woman when I see her." But he did not ask her to be his
wife; nor did he wait at Fawn Court till Lady Fawn had come back with the
carriage.
CHAPTER XIII
SHOWING WHAT FRANK GREYSTOCK DID
Frank Greystock escaped from the dovecote before Lady Fawn had returned.
He had not made his visit to Richmond with any purpose of seeing Lucy
Morris, or of saying to her when he did see her anything special--of
saying anything that should, or anything that should not, have been said.
He had gone there, in truth, simply because his cousin had asked him, and
because it was almost a duty on his part to see his cousin on the
momentous occasion of this new engagement. But he had declared to himself
that old Lady Fawn was a fool, and that to see Lucy again would be very
pleasant. "See her; of course I'll see her," he had said. "Why should I be
prevented from seeing her?" Now he had seen her, and as he returned by the
train to London, he acknowledged to himself that it was no longer in his
power to promote his fortune by marriage.
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