“How long you may know a man, and then find you are mistaken in his character,” thought Frank. “So vanity is at the bottom of all these efforts to make money.”
“When are you coming to the Manor House?”
“Impossible. You know I can’t go there so long as your father—”
“Come in one afternoon; he’ll ask you to stay to dinner. He has forgotten all about it.”
“I cannot come to the Manor House until my engagement to your sister is sanctioned by him.”
“The way to get that is to come to the Manor House and talk him into it. For my part, I think, even from his point of view, that it would be better that he should recognise the engagement; nothing can be more damaging than these clandestine meetings.”
“What can I do? I will not give her up.”
“I never interfere. I have quite enough worries of my
