"No; there you wrong me. Indeed I am not joking. I know that in what I am saying I am telling you the simple truth. He has said enough to me to justify me in saying so. Alice, think of it all. It would reconcile me to much, and it would be something to be the mother of the future Duke of Omnium."
"To me it would be nothing," said Alice; "less than nothing. I mean to say that the temptation is one so easily resisted that it acts in the other way. Don't say anything more about it, Glencora."
"If you don't wish it, I will not."

"No; indeed I am not joking. He has said enough to me to justify me in saying so. Alice, think of it. It would reconcile me to much, and it would be something to be the mother of the future Duke of Omnium."
"To me it would be nothing," said Alice. "Don't say anything more about it, Glencora."
"If you don't wish it, I will not."
