The things we do!

I told him also about Jane; and, I
grieve and blush to say, expressed a confidence in that direction I
little felt.
It had been perhaps a year since my adventure with Mary, and I had
taken all that time trying to convince Jane that I did not mean a word
I had said to her mistress, and that I was very earnest in everything
I said to her. But Jane's ears would have heard just as much had they
been the pair of beautiful little shells they so much resembled. This
troubled me a great deal, and the best I could hope was that she held
me on probation.
On the evening of the day Mary came home to Greenwich, Brandon asked:
"Who and what on earth is this wonderful Mary I hear so much about?
They say she is coming home to-day, and the court seems to have gone
mad about it; I hear nothing but 'Mary is coming! Mary is coming!
Mary! Mary!' from morning until night. They say Buckingham is beside
himself for love of her. He has a wife at home, if I am right, and is
old enough to be her father.


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