One of the most difficult lessons for spirited young men to learn is, that good jokes are not always good policy.

They have to be paid for, like good dinners, though dinner and joke shall seem to have been at somebody else's expense.

Young Fellingham was treated rudely by Van Diemen Smith, and with some cold reserve by Annette: in consequence of which he thought her more than ever commonplace.

He wrote her a letter of playful remonstrance, followed by one that appealed to her sentiments.
But she replied to neither of them.

So his visits to Crikswich came to an end.
Shall a girl who has no appreciation of fun affect us?
Her expressive eyes, and her quaint simplicity, and her enthusiasm for England, haunted Mr.Fellingham; being conjured up by contrast with what he met about him.