I doubt, however, whether I have the courage." All of which made the dean's wife uneasy.
The reader, who has read so far, will perhaps think that Frank Greystock was in love with Lucy as Lucy was in love with him.

But such was not exactly the case.

To be in love, as an absolute, well-marked, acknowledged fact, is the condition of a woman more frequently and more readily than of a man.

Such is not the common theory on the matter, as it is the man's business to speak, and the woman's business to be reticent.

And the woman is presumed to have kept her heart free from any load of love, till she may accept the burthen with an assurance that it shall become a joy and a comfort to her.