There is no doubt she likes you, but as to anything more, it is for you to find out.

You will have plenty of time, between this and Sydney.

Anyhow, you have my hearty approval of your wooing.
"I think, between ourselves you know, you must not expect, at first, any very cordial approval on the part of her mother.

She had an idea, you know, that Frances would marry a duke at least, and an offer from a prince of the blood would not have surprised her.

It is a great disappointment, to her, that she should have returned unmarried; and she has already been talking to me about our returning to England, in another couple of years.