' Then he went on. 'She does,
pert poppet!' This was almost too much for Silverbridge; but
still he contained himself. 'She won't look at me because she has
got it into her head that perhaps some day she may become Duchess
of Omnium! That of course is out of the question.'
'Upon my word all this seems to me to be so very--very,--distasteful
that I think you had better say nothing more about it.'
'It is distasteful,' said Dolly; 'but in truth I am so downright,--
what you may call enamoured--'
'Don't talk such stuff as that here,' said Silverbridge, jumping
up. 'I won't have it.'
'But I am. There is nothing I wouldn't do to get her. Of course
it's a good match for her. I've got three separate properties; and
when the governor goes off I shall have a clear fifteen thousand a
year.'
'Oh, bother!'
'Of course that's nothing to you, but it is a very tidy income for
a commoner. And how is she to do better?'
'I don't know how she could do much worse,' said Silverbridge in a
transport of rage. Then he pulled his moustache in vexation, angry
with himself that he should have allowed himself to say even a
word on so preposterous a supposition.
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