He's an ingenuous soul--in some ways." "Well, that is the very reason why you ought to find out whether the men are going to dress, and let him know.

He would never think of it himself." "Neither would I," said her husband.
"Very well, if you wish to spoil his chance at the outset," she sighed.
She did not quite know whether to be glad or not that the men were all in sacks and cutaways at dinner; it saved her, from shame for her husband and Mr.Burnamy; but it put her in the wrong.

Every one talked; even the father and daughter talked with each other, and at one moment Mrs.March could not be quite sure that the daughter had not looked at her when she spoke.

She could not be mistaken in the remark which the father addressed to Burnamy, though it led to nothing.
XII.
The dinner was uncommonly good, as the first dinner out is apt to be; and it went gayly on from soup to fruit, which was of the American abundance and variety, and as yet not of the veteran freshness imparted by the ice-closet.

Everybody was eating it, when by a common consciousness they were aware of alien witnesses.