"I am quite in earnest, uncle--quite in earnest. From little things
that she has said, and little things that I have seen, I do believe
what I now tell you."
"And you want me to--"
"Dear uncle; my own one darling uncle, I want you only to do that
which will make you--make you happy. What is Miss Dunstable to me
compared to you?" And then she stooped down and kissed him. The
doctor was apparently too much astounded by the intimation given him
to make any further immediate reply. His niece, seeing this, left him
that she might go and dress; and when they met again in the
drawing-room Frank Gresham was with them.
CHAPTER XXIX
Miss Dunstable at Home
Miss Dunstable did not look like a love-lorn maiden, as she stood in
a small ante-chamber at the top of her drawing-room stairs, receiving
her guests. Her house was one of those abnormal mansions, which are
to be seen here and there in London, built in compliance rather with
the rules of rural architecture, than with those which usually govern
the erection of city streets and town terraces. It stood back from
its brethren, and alone, so that its owner could walk round it. It
was approached by a short carriage-way; the chief door was in the
back of the building; and the front of the house looked on to one
of the parks.
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