'
'Or that if I chose that he should I would let you stop me? He is
in love with somebody else,--and perhaps I am too. And we are two
paupers.'
'My lord would not approve of it.'
'If you know what my lord approves of and he disapproves you
understand a great deal better than I do. And if you mind what he
approves or disapproves, you care for his opinion a great deal
more than I do. My cousin is here now to talk to me,--about his
own affairs, and I mean to see him,--alone.' Then she left the
room, and went down to that in which Frank was waiting for her,
without the company of Miss Cassewary.
'Do you really mean,' she said, after they had been together for
some minutes, 'that you had the courage to ask the Duke for his
daughter's hand?'
'Why not?'
'I believe you would dare to do anything.'
'I couldn't very well take it without asking him.'
'As I am not acquainted with the young lady I don't know how that
might be.'
'And if I took her so, I should have to take her empty-handed.'
'Which wouldn't suit;--would it?'
'It wouldn't suit for her,--whose comforts and happiness are much
more to me than my own.
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