Miss Dunstable did remember this, and therefore abstained from laughing at him.
"Why, Mr Gresham, what on earth do you mean?
In all human probability I shall never write another line to Mr de Courcy; but, if I did, what possible harm could it do you ?" "Oh, Miss Dunstable! you do not in the least understand what my feelings are." "Don't I?
Then I hope I never shall.

I thought I did.

I thought they were the feelings of a good, true-hearted friend; feelings that I could sometimes look back upon with pleasure as being honest when so much that one meets is false.

I have become very fond of you, Mr Gresham, and I should be sorry to think that I did not understand your feelings." This was almost worse and worse.

Young ladies like Miss Dunstable--for she was still to be numbered in the category of young ladies--do not usually tell young gentlemen that they are very fond of them.