Publisher's Synopsis
The Uncle of Elfrida was the Father of Frederic; in other words, they were first cousins by the Father's side.Being both born in one day & both brought up at one school, it was not wonderfull that they should look on each other with something more than bare politeness. They loved with mutual sincerity, but were both determined not to transgress the rules of Propriety by owning their attachment, either to the object beloved, or to any one else.