Of course he'll see you, too, when he comes." "I think he'd want to see me," said Lucy, "and I'm sure I should want to see him!" Then she wrote her answer to Frank's letter.

She allowed herself an hour for the happy task; but though the letter, when written, was short, the hour hardly sufficed for the writing of it.
"DEAR MR.

GREYSTOCK;"-- there was matter for her of great consideration before she could get even so far as this; but, after biting her pen for ten minutes, during which she pictured to herself how pleasant it would be to call him Frank when he should have told her to do so, and had found, upon repeated whispered trials, that of all names it was the pleasantest to pronounce, she decided upon refraining from writing it now-- Lady Fawn has seen your letter to me,--the dearest letter that ever was written,--and she says that you may call upon _her_.

But you mustn't go away without seeing _me too_.
Then there was great difficulty as to the words to be used by her for the actual rendering herself up to him as his future wife.

At last the somewhat too Spartan simplicity of her nature prevailed, and the words were written, very plain and very short.
I love you better than all the world, and I will be your wife.