“Why, I know very well who is in love with Fanny Burney!”
I told her that was more than I did, but owned it was not difficult to
guess who she meant, though I could not tell what.
“Captain Bouchier,” said she. “But you did not tell me so, nor he
either; I had it from Mr. Tyson, our master of the ceremonies, who told
me you made a conquest of him at the ball; and he knows these matters
pretty well; 'tis his trade to know them.”
“Well-a-day!” quoth I--“'tis unlucky we did not meet a little sooner,
for this very day he is ordered away with his troop into Norfolk.”