But she is not
like Gerald or me. She is more obstinate.'
'Less fickle perhaps.'
'Yes, if you choose to call it fickle. I don't know that I am
fickle. If I were in love with a girl I should be true to her.'
'Are you sure of that?'
'Quite sure. If I were really in love with her I certainly should
not change. It is possible that I might be bullied out of it.'
'But she will not be bullied out of it?'
'Mary? No. That is just it. She will stick to it if he does.'
'I would if I were she. Where will you find any young man equal to
Frank Tregear?'
'Perhaps you mean to cut poor Mary out.'
'That isn't a nice thing for you to say, Lord Silverbridge. Frank
is my cousin,--as indeed you are also; but it so happens that I
have seen a great deal of him all my life. And, though I don't
want to cut your sister out, as you so prettily say, I love him
well enough to understand that any girl whom he loves ought to be
true to him.' So far what she said was very well, but she
afterwards added a word which might have been wisely omitted.
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