"You will not help me then?" he said, when they had both been silent for a while. "Help you? How should I help you?" "I wanted no other help than this,—that I might have had an opportunity of meeting Violet here, and of getting from her some answer." "Has the question then never been asked already?" said Lady Laura. To this Phineas made no immediate reply. There was no reason why he should show his whole hand to an adversary. "Why do you not go to Lady Baldock's house?" continued Lady Laura. "You are admitted there. You know Lady Baldock. Go and ask her to stand your friend with her niece. See
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