And now that I have told you so much, it is only just that I should tell you this also; that as far as I can see at present I have no reason to hope that she will do so." "Oh, Frank, the girl is doing all she can to catch you," said Lady Arabella,--not prudently.
"No, mother; there you wrong her altogether; wrong her most cruelly." "You ungracious, wicked boy! you call me cruel!" "I don't call you cruel; but you wrong her cruelly, most cruelly.
When I have spoken to her about this--for I have spoken to her--she has behaved exactly as you would have wanted her to do; but not at all as I wished her.

She has given me no encouragement.

You have turned her out among you"-- Frank was beginning to be very bitter now--"but she has done nothing to deserve it.

If there has been any fault it has been mine.

But it is well that we should all understand each other.