Remember me to the clan.
Yours ever, DUKE.
P.S .-- How do Nelly and your mother get along together?
Whilst Elinor was reading, the gardener passed the summer-house, and Constance went out and spoke to him.

Elinor looked significantly at Marian.
"Nelly," returned Marian, in hushed tones of reproach, "you have stabbed poor Constance to the heart by telling her that Marmaduke never proposed to her.

That is why she has gone out." "Yes," said Elinor, "it was brutal.

But I thought, as you made such a fuss about the letter, that it must have been a proposal at least.

It cant be helped now.