Excerpt from My Lady's DiamondsIn the course of a year also he felt that he would be able to marry, if things kept at their present level. For he was no man to let a girl feel that she would have to endure poverty if she married him. Perhaps this was the reason why he had not yet made a formal proposal, and it was possible also that Joan thought him a little over cautious. But she had not shown him any cold ness, and that was the reason why he felt rather surprised when she had refused to go for a walk with him simply because old Professor Fair weather, who had known her father in days gone by, was coming to dine at the Tower, where she was a guest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.