She had been false now,--so
far false that she had told her friend that she had never been in
love. But she was in love;--in love with him, Frank Tregear. She
knew it as thoroughly as it was possible for her to know
anything;--and had acknowledged it to herself a score of times.
But, she could not marry him. And it was expected, nay, almost
necessary that she should marry someone. To that someone, how good
she would be! How she would strive by duty and attention, and if
possible by affection, to make up for the misfortune of her early
love.
And so I hope that I have brought my cart to its appointed place
in the front, without showing too much of the horse.
CHAPTER 11
Cruel
For two or three days after the first scene between the Duke and
his daughter,--that scene in which she was forbidden either to see
or to write to her lover,--not a word was said at Matching about Mr
Tregear, nor were any steps taken towards curtailing her liberty
of action. She had said she would not write to him without telling
her father, and the Duke was too proud of the honour of his family
to believe it to be possible that she should deceive him.
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