She would have kept them till she had ceased to be a Eustace.

Frank had certainly meant it on that Thursday afternoon;--but surely he would have been in Mount Street before this if he had not changed his mind.
We all know that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

"I have been at Fawn Court once or twice," said Lizzie, with her sweetest grace, "and I always think it a model of real family happiness." "I hope you may be there very often," said Lord Fawn.
"Ah, I have no right to intrude myself often on your mother, Lord Fawn." There could hardly be a better opening than this for him had he chosen to accept it.

But it was not thus that he had arranged it,--for he had made his arrangements.

"There would be no feeling of that kind, I am sure," he said.