'
'I hope it will have that effect,' said the father.
'Mr Boncassen!' ejaculated the mother.
'What I say is true. I hope it will have that effect. It had with
you, my dear.'
'I don't know that people didn't think of me as much as of anybody
else, even though I was married.'
'Then, my dear, I never knew it.'
Miss Boncassen, though she had behaved serenely and with good
temper during the process of Dolly's proposal, had not liked it.
She had a very high opinion of herself, and was certainly entitled
to have it by the undisguised admiration of all that came near
her. She was not more indifferent to the admiration of young men
than are other young ladies. But she was not proud of the
admiration of Dolly Longstaff. She was here among strangers whose
ways were unknown to her, and wonderful in their dimness. She knew
that she was associating with men very different from those at
home where young men were supposed to be under the necessity of
earning their bread. At New York she would dance, as she had said,
with bank clerks. She was not prepared to admit that a young
London lord was better than a New York bank clerk.
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