Lady Margaretta, you haven't got a scent-bottle, have you?
And if I should faint, where's the garden-chair ?" "Oh, but I'm not going to make a declaration at all," said Frank.
"Are you not?
Oh! Now, Lady Margaretta, I appeal to you; did you not understand him to say something very particular ?" "Certainly, I thought nothing could be plainer," said the Lady Margaretta.
"And so, Mr Gresham, I am to be told, that after all it means nothing," said Patience, putting her handkerchief up to her eyes.
"It means that you are an excellent hand at quizzing a fellow like me." "Quizzing! No; but you are an excellent hand at deceiving a poor girl like me.

Well, remember I have got a witness; here is Lady Margaretta, who heard it all.

What a pity it is that my brother is a clergyman.

You calculated on that, I know; or you would never had served me so." She said so just as her brother joined them, or rather just as he had joined Lady Margaretta de Courcy; for her ladyship and Mr Oriel walked on in advance by themselves.

Lady Margaretta had found it rather dull work, making a third in Miss Oriel's flirtation with her cousin; the more so as she was quite accustomed to take a principal part herself in all such transactions.