She had half fancied once or twice that Fanny thought more of Mr.Saul than she allowed even herself to know.

And Fanny, when she had spoken of the impossibility of such a marriage, had always based the impossibility on the fact that people should not marry without the means of living--a reason which to Florence, with all her prudence, was not sufficient.
Fanny might wait as she also intended to wait.

Latterly, too, Fanny had declared more than once to Florence her conviction that Mr.Saul's passion had been a momentary insanity which had altogether passed away; and in these declarations Florence had half fancied that she discovered some tinge of regret.

If it were so, what was she now to say to Mr.
Saul?
"You think then, Miss Burton," he continued, "that I have no chance of success?
I ask the question because if I felt certain that this was so quite certain--I should be wrong to remain here.

It has been my first and only parish, and I could not leave it without bitter sorrow.