"DEAR MR. GREYSTOCK:"--There was matter for her of great consideration
before she could get even so far as this; but after biting her pen for ten
minutes, during which she pictured to herself how pleasant it would be to
call him Frank when he should have told her to do so, and had found, upon
repeated whispered trials, that of all names it was the pleasantest to
pronounce, she decided upon refraining from writing it now--"Lady Fawn has
seen your letter to me--the dearest letter that ever was written--and she
says that you may call upon _her_. But you mustn't go away without seeing
_me too_." Then there was great difficulty as to the words to be used by
her for the actual rendering herself up to him as his future wife. At last
the somewhat too Spartan simplicity of her nature prevailed, and the words
were written very plain, and very short. "I love you better than all the
world, and I will be your wife. It shall be the happiness of my life to
try to deserve you.
"I am, with all my heart,
"Most affectionately your own
"LUCY."
When it was written it did not content her. But the hour was over, and the
letters must go.
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