"
"If you were to tell Lady Chiltern--"
"I was to have gone on Thursday, you know. You won't tell anybody?"
"Oh dear no."
"I think I shall propose to that girl. I've about made up my mind to
do it, only a fellow can't call her out before half a dozen of them.
Couldn't you get Lady C. to trot her out into the garden? You and she
are as thick as thieves."
"I should think Miss Palliser was rather difficult to be managed."
Phineas declined to interfere, taking upon himself to assure Mr.
Spooner that attempts to arrange matters in that way never
succeeded. He went in and settled himself to the work of answering
correspondents at Tankerville, while Mr. Spooner hung about the
drawing-room, hoping that circumstances and time might favour him. It
is to be feared that he made himself extremely disagreeable to poor
Lady Chiltern, to whom he was intending to open his heart could he
only find an opportunity for so much as that. But Lady Chiltern was
determined not to have his confidence, and at last withdrew from the
scene in order that she might not be entrapped.
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