Lady Milborough and Mrs.Trevelyan had told Nora Rowley that should encouragement in that direction come in her way, she ought to allow herself to fall in love with Mr.Glascock.A certain amount of encouragement had come in her way, but she had not as yet allowed herself to fall in love with Mr.Glascock.It seemed to her that Mr.
Glascock was quite conscious of the advantages of his own position, and that his powers of talking about other matters than those with which he was immediately connected were limited.

She did believe that he had in truth paid her the compliment of falling in love with her, and this is a compliment to which few girls are indifferent.

Nora might perhaps have tried to fall in love with Mr.Glascock, had she not been forced to make comparisons between him and another.

This other one had not fallen in love with her, as she well knew; and she certainly had not fallen in love with him.

But still, the comparison was forced upon her, and it did not result in favour of Mr.Glascock.
On the present occasion Mr.Glascock as he sat next to her almost proposed to her.
"You have never seen Monkhams ?" he said.