Yes, you did, Frank. But for you I would never have dreamed of
taking him. You know, Frank, how it was, when you told me of him and
wouldn't come to me yourself." Now again she was sitting close to him and
had her hand upon his arm. "No, Frank; even to please you I could not
marry him now. But I'll tell you what I'll do. He shall ask me again. In
spite of those idiots at Richmond he shall kneel at my feet, necklace or
no necklace; and then--then I'll tell him what I think of him. Marry him!
I would not touch him with a pair of tongs." As she said this she was
holding her cousin fast by the hand.
CHAPTER XXIV
SHOWING WHAT FRANK GREYSTOCK THOUGHT ABOUT MARRIAGE
It had not been much after noon when Frank Greystock reached Portray
Castle, and it was very nearly five when he left it. Of course he had
lunched with the two ladies, and as the conversation before lunch had been
long and interesting, they did not sit down till near three. Then Lizzie
had taken him out to show him the grounds and garden, and they had
clambered together down to the sea-beach. "Leave me here," she had said
when he insisted on going because of his friend at the cottage.
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