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1023 depended on the parties being left alone. Of course, you are not to go out of the room as if you meant it and did it on purpose, but as if it was quite an accident, and to come back again in the same way. If you cough in the passage before you open the door, or whistle carelessly, or hum a tune, or something of that sort, to let them know you’re coming, it’s always better; because, of course, though it’s not only natural but perfectly correct and proper under the circumstances, still it is very confusing if you interrupt young people when they are--when they are sitting on the sofa, and-- and all that sort of thing: which is very nonsensical, perhaps, but still they will do it.’ The profound astonishment with which her son regarded her during this long address, gradually increasing as it approached its climax in no way discomposed Mrs Nickleby, but rather exalted her opinion of her own cleverness; therefore, merely stopping to remark, with much complacency, that she had fully expected him to be surprised, she entered on a vast quantity of circumstantial evidence of a particularly incoherent and perplexing kind; the upshot of which was, to establish, beyond the possibility of doubt, that Mr Frank Cheeryble had fallen desperately in love with Kate. ‘With whom?’ cried Nicholas. Mrs Nickleby repeated, with Kate. ‘What! Our Kate! My sister!’ ‘Lord, Nicholas!’ returned Mrs Nickleby, ‘whose Kate should it be, if not ours; or what should I care about it, or take any interest in it for, if it was anybody but your sister?’ ‘Dear mother,’ said Nicholas, ‘surely it can’t be!’ ‘Very good, my dear,’ replied Mrs Nickleby, with great confidence. ‘Wait and see.’ |
