[Faith chuckles. She can imagine the fuss that would cause. About as great a one as when she bickered with her mother over the acceptability of a young Navy officer to court her when she had so sure a thing as a lordling army officer whom she needed only say the word to have a marriage date set.
But she is conscious that most men do not prefer their predecessors discussed. Not, she reminds herself, that she has any proof that Richard means to court her. But to compare him with other men, even favourably, who've held her affection might upset any sort of notion like that.]
I fear it would be dismissed as a girl's foolish fancy. Mere romanticism and nothing more.
[For she knows what credit her mind and resolution is given where the men in her life are concerned.]
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But she is conscious that most men do not prefer their predecessors discussed. Not, she reminds herself, that she has any proof that Richard means to court her. But to compare him with other men, even favourably, who've held her affection might upset any sort of notion like that.]
I fear it would be dismissed as a girl's foolish fancy. Mere romanticism and nothing more.
[For she knows what credit her mind and resolution is given where the men in her life are concerned.]