CHAPTER LXIV.
BEING A NIGHT SCENE, IN WHICH MISS GERTRUDE CHATTESWORTH, BEING ADJURED BY AUNT BECKY, MAKES ANSWER.
In Aunt Becky's mind, the time could not be far off when the odd sort of relations existing between the Belmont family and Mr.Dangerfield must be defined.

The Croesus himself, indeed, was very indulgent.

He was assiduous and respectful; but he wisely abstained from pressing for an immediate decision, and trusted to reflection and to Aunt Becky's good offices; and knew that his gold would operate by its own slow, but sure, gravitation.
At one time he had made up his mind to be peremptory--and politely to demand an unequivocal 'yes,' or 'no.' But a letter reached him from London; it was from a great physician there.

Whatever was in it, the effect was to relieve his mind of an anxiety.

He never, indeed, looked anxious, or moped like an ordinary man in blue-devils.