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'Lady Kirkbank, living on the
premises, is likely to be the first.'
'Then you are not engaged to Smithson?'
'Didn't I tell you so just now? Mr. Smithson did me the honour to make
me an offer yesterday, at about this hour; and I did myself the honour
to reject him.'
'And yet you were whispering together in the box last night, and you
were riding in the Row with him this morning. I just met a fellow who
saw you together. Do you think it is right, Lesbia, to play fast and
loose with the man--to encourage him, if you don't mean to marry him?'
'How can you accuse me of encouraging a person whom I flatly refused
yesterday morning? If Mr. Smithson likes my society as a friend, must I
needs deny him my friendship, ask Lady Kirkbank to shut her door against
him? Mr. Smithson is very pleasant as an acquaintance; and although I
don't want to marry him, there's no reason I should snub him.'
'Smithson is not a man to be trifled with. You will find yourself
entangled in a web which you won't easily break through.'
'I am not afraid of webs.


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