You will find the second tougher still.

I have it on the authority of Lady Verinder herself, that her daughter was ready to marry Franklin Blake, before that infernal Indian Diamond disappeared from the house.

She had drawn him on and put him off again, with the coquetry of a young girl.

But she had confessed to her mother that she loved cousin Franklin, and her mother had trusted cousin Franklin with the secret.

So there he was, Miss Clack, with his creditors content to wait, and with the certain prospect before him of marrying an heiress.