A Fair Fraud — page 205: what you’re looking at

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194 A Fair Fraud your face is like a turnip at present—a good job there is nobody to see you just now! You are a fool, my dear! However, mercifully, you have got one evening more in which to repair your mistake.’ ‘I have told you before, mamma, that I cannot marry Captain Drury. Besides, he is not in the least likely ever to ask me to do so again.’ ‘You must make him ask you, Hetty! Don't talk nonsense to me! Any girl can make a man who has once made love to her, begin making love again; you have only got to give him an opening. Ask him to play a game of : billiards after dinner, then you can wander away into the billiard room and on into the conservatory together; there you can grow sentimental and soft, ask him for a flower, and talk prettily about the happy, happy days you have had here, and how sad partings are, and all that sort of stuff. Oh, it’s as easy as possible! You can do it perfectly if: you choose ! ’ ‘I daresay ; but, mamma, in this case I shall not do it! I assure you it is hopeless—every- thing is completely over between Captain Drury and myself—the subject can never be reopened.’ ‘And so you are going to throw away a marriage like this ? and a house like this? and GORMGIOO