However, I told him it was quite unnecessary to disturb another old woman, for that I should of course see you home." "Oh, no, Mr Gresham; indeed you'll not do that." "Indeed, and indeed, I shall." "What! on this great day, when every lady is looking for you, and talking of you.

I suppose you want to set the countess against me for ever.

Think, too, how angry Lady Arabella will be if you are absent on such an errand as this." "To hear you talk, Mary, one would think that you were going to Silverbridge yourself." "Perhaps I am." "If I did not go with you, some of the other fellows would.

John, or George--" "Good gracious, Frank! Fancy either of the Mr de Courcys walking home with me!" She had forgotten herself, and the strict propriety on which she had resolved, in the impossibility of forgoing her little joke against the de Courcy grandeur; she had forgotten herself, and had called him Frank in her old, former, eager, free tone of voice; and then, remembering she had done so, she drew herself up, but her lips, and determined to be doubly on her guard in the future.
"Well, it shall be either one of them or I," said Frank: "perhaps you would prefer my cousin George to me ?" "I should prefer Janet to either, seeing that with her I should not suffer the extreme nuisance of knowing that I was a bore." "A bore! Mary, to me ?" "Yes, Mr Gresham, a bore to you.

Having to walk home through the mud with village young ladies is boring.