"An attachment?"
"Yes; but you put it somewhat coarsely."
"Didn't mean to, Dick. Quite right that you should be sensitive. Attracted? Rather! A dozen at least have sighed for her, and sighed in vain."
"Why?"
"Not the right ones, Dick. If there is one quality above another which distinguishes Fanny it is genuineness. A more genuine girl doesn't breathe. Dick, to be admitted upon terms of intimacy with that family is a privilege."
"I esteem it such. Not the right ones, Fred? Of course that must be the reason."
"It is. Where she gives her hand she will give her heart. They go together—both or none."
"Do you think—that is, have you any sort of idea—that she has met the right one at last?"
"Seriously, Dick? In perfect faith and honour?"
"Seriously, Fred. In perfect faith and honour."