She had given her heart,--for good and all, as she owned to herself,--to Frank Greystock.

She had owned to herself that it was so, and had owned to herself that nothing could come of it.

Frank was becoming a man of mark,--but was becoming a man of mark without much money.

Of all men he was the last who could afford to marry a governess.

And then, moreover, he had never said a word to make her think that he loved her.