"No doubt."
"Young ladies in such circumstances are not apt to persevere in their severity. Perhaps it may be supposed that she will give way at last."
"I cannot take upon myself to answer that, Lady Kingsbury. The matter is one on which I am not particularly anxious to talk. Only as you asked me I thought it best just to tell you the facts."
"I am sure I am ever so much obliged to you. The young lady's father is—"
"The young lady's father is a clerk in a merchant's office in the City."
"So I understand,—and a Quaker?"
"And a Quaker."
"And I believe he lives at Holloway."
"Just so."
"In the same street with that young man whom Fanny has—has chosen to pick up."