6/20 "That's my love--pounds, shillings, and pence; and a very coy mistress she is." "Nonsense, sir. As if I didn't know where your heart was. What right had you to speak to me if you had an L.D.down in the country ?" It should be here declared on behalf of poor John Eames that he had not ever spoken to Amelia--he had not spoken to her in any such phrase as her words seemed to imply. But then he had written to her a fatal note of which we will speak further before long, and that perhaps was quite as bad,--or worse. |