But yet she could hardly intend that everything between them
should be over. Even an American girl could not be so unreasonable
as that. He remembered the passionate way in which she had assured
him of her love. All that could not have been forgotten! He had
done nothing by which he could have forfeited her esteem. She had
desired him to tell the whole affair to her father, and he had
done so. Mr Boncassen might perhaps have objected. It might be that
this American was so prejudiced against the English aristocrats as
to desire no commerce with them. There were not many Englishmen
who would not have welcomed him as a son-in-law, but Americans
might be different. Still,--still Isabel would hardly have shown
her obedience to her father in this way. She was too independent
to obey her father in a matter concerning her own heart. And if he
had not been the possessor of her heart at that last interview,
then she must have been false indeed! So he got once more into
his hansom and had himself taken back to Brook Street.
Mrs Boncassen was in the drawing-room alone.
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