I'm sure I'm very much obliged.

Of course, we have no right to expect anything else--still it's discouraging to keep us waiting a year, isn't it ?" Magdalen stopped his mouth by a summary process, to which even Frank submitted gratefully.

At the same time, she did not forget to set down his discontent to the right side.

"How fond he is of me!" she thought.
"A year's waiting is quite a hardship to him." She returned to the house, secretly regretting that she had not heard more of Frank's complimentary complaints.

Miss Garth's elaborate satire, addressed to her while she was in this frame of mind, was a purely gratuitous waste of Miss Garth's breath.