Why didn't Miss Belle come?
Mr.Tracy is not feeling well, and she'd have made him forget it." She was content now; and out from her happy eyes there went a light that told a secret to another pair of eyes there and got a secret in return.
In just that infinitely small fraction of a second those two great confessions were made, received, and perfectly understood.

All anxiety, apprehension, uncertainty, vanished out of these young people's hearts and left them filled with a great peace.
Sellers had had the most confident faith that with the new reinforcement victory would be at this last moment snatched from the jaws of defeat, but it was an error.

The talk was as stubbornly disjointed as ever.
He was proud of Gwendolen, and liked to show her off, even against Miss Belle Thompson, and here had been a great opportunity, and what had she made of it?
He felt a good deal put out.

It vexed him to think that this Englishman, with the traveling Briton's everlasting disposition to generalize whole mountain ranges from single sample-grains of sand, would jump to the conclusion that American girls were as dumb as himself-- generalizing the whole tribe from this single sample and she at her poorest, there being nothing at that table to inspire her, give her a start, keep her from going to sleep.

He made up his mind that for the honor of the country he would bring these two together again over the social board before long.