Frank is only just gone.

He has had another long talk with my uncle, since he came back from you this morning; but I am afraid he has not made much way yet." Maggie sighed.

"I don't wonder at his not thinking me good enough for Frank.
"No! the difficulty would be to find any one he did think fit for his paragon of a son." "He thought you were, dearest Erminia." "So Frank has told you that, has he?
I suppose we shall have no more family secrets now," said Erminia, laughing.

"But I can assure you I had a strong rival in lady Adela Castlemayne, the Duke of Wight's daughter; she was the most beautiful lady my uncle had ever seen (he only saw her in the Grand Stand at Woodchester races, and never spoke a word to her in his life).

And if she would have had Frank, my uncle would still have been dissatisfied as long as the Princess Victoria was unmarried; none would have been good enough while a better remained.