I was so glad to make acquaintance with your
sister.'
'You saw Mary, did you?'
'Oh yes; I lunched there. I'm to go down and meet the Duke some
day.'
'Meet the Duke!'
'Why not?'
'No reason on earth,--only I can't imagine the governor going to
Richmond for his dinner. Well! I am very glad to hear it. I hope
you'll get on well with him.'
'I was so much struck by your sister.'
'Yes I dare say,' said Silverbridge, turning away into the path
where he saw Miss Boncassen standing with some other ladies. It
certainly did not occur to him that Popplecourt was to be brought
forward as a suitor for his sister's hand.
'I believe this is the most lovely place in the world,' Miss
Boncassen said to him.
'We are so much the more obliged to you for bringing us here.'
'We don't bring you. You allow us to come with you and see all
that is pretty and lovely.'
'Is it not your party?'
'Father will pay the bill, I suppose,--as far as that goes. And
mother's name was put on the cards. But of course we know what
that means. It is because you and a few others like you have been
so kind to us, that we are able to be here at all.
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