"
"Certainly I may," said Phineas.
"And the Duke, as the mountain, which is fixed in its stateliness,
short of the power of some earthquake, which shall be grander and
more terrible than any earthquake yet known. Here we are at the house
again. I will go in and sit down for a while."
"If I leave you, Madame Goesler, I will say good-bye till next
winter."
"I shall be in town again before Christmas, you know. You will come
and see me?"
"Of course I will."
"And then this love trouble of course will be over,--one way or the
other;--will it not?"
"Ah!--who can say?"
"Faint heart never won fair lady. But your heart is never faint.
Farewell."
Then he left her. Up to this moment he had not seen Violet, and yet
he knew that she was to be there. She had herself told him that she
was to accompany Lady Laura, whom he had already met. Lady Baldock
had not been invited, and had expressed great animosity against the
Duke in consequence. She had gone so far as to say that the Duke was
a man at whose house a young lady such as her niece ought not to be
seen. But Violet had laughed at this, and declared her intention of
accepting the invitation. "Go," she had said; "of course I shall go.
I should have broken my heart if I could not have got there.
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