‘Brother, is there no one else...?’
‘There’s a nobleman anxious to bestow his titles on her.’
‘He is rich?’
‘The first or second wealthiest in Great Britain, they say.’
‘Is he young?’
‘About the same age as mine.’
‘Is he a handsome young man?’
‘Handsomer than your brother, my girl.’
‘No, no, no!’ said she. ‘And what if he is, and your Henrietta does not choose him? Now let me think what I long to think. I have her close to me.’
She rocked a roseate image on her heart and went to bed with it by starlight.