What I said to you was God's truth; but it was spoken
without thought at the moment. I have thought of it much since; and now I
write to you to ask you to be my wife. I have lived for the last year or
two with this hope before me; and now--. Dear, dear Lucy, I will not write
in too great confidence; but I will tell you that all my happiness is in
your hands.
"If your answer is what I hope it may be, tell Lady Fawn at once. I shall
immediately write to Bobsborough, as I hate secrets in such matters. And
if it is to be so, then I shall claim the privilege of going to Fawn Court
as soon and as often as I please.
"Yours ever and always, if you will have me,
"F. G."
He sat for an hour at his desk, with his letter lying on the table, before
he left his chambers, looking at it. If he should decide on posting it,
then would that life in Belgravia-cum-Pimlico, of which in truth he was
very fond, be almost closed for him. The lords and countesses, and rich
county members, and leading politicians, who were delighted to welcome
him, would not care for his wife; nor could he very well take his wife
among them. To live with them as a married man, he must live as they
lived, and must have his own house in their precincts.
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