“No. I don’t know. I copied it for you.”
“Thank you. I thank you very much. You could not have brought me any thing better.”
“I brought you a piece of news, too.”
“As good as the poem?”
“Nan Gerard thinks so. She is to be married and to live at Old Place; our castle in the air.”
“Old Place isn’t my castle in the air. Who told you?”
“A woman’s question. I never told a woman a secret yet that she did not reply, ‘Who told you?’ Mary Sherwood told me, of course. Do you congratulate Naughty Nan?”
“Must I?”
“It’s queer that I do not know that man. I have missed an introduction a thousand times. Do you congratulate her?”
“I am supposed to congratulate him. He is very lovable.”