Come early, at eleven, if you can.'
On the day named and at the hour fixed he was in Belgrave Square.
He had known this house since he was a boy, and could well
remember how, when he first entered it, he had thought with some
awe of the grandeur of the Earl. The Earl had then not paid much
attention to him, but he had become very much taken with the grace
and good nature of the girl who had owned him as a cousin. 'You
are my cousin, Frank,' she had said; 'I am so glad to have a
cousin.' He could remember the words now as though they had been
spoken only yesterday. Then there had quickly grown to be
friendship between him and this, as he thought, sweetest of all
girls. At that time he had just gone to Eton; but before he left
Eton they had sworn to love each other. And so it had been and the
thing had grown, till at last, just when he had taken his degree
two matters had been settled between them; the first was that each
loved the other irretrievably, irrevocably, passionately; the
second, that it was altogether out of the question that they
should ever marry each other.
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