I wish you could have been here to see him paying her all sort; of silly attentions, and hear him making her compliments." "Thank you.

I think I'm just as well without it.

Did she pay him silly attentions and compliments, too ?" "That's the only thing that can make me forgive her for his wanting her.
She was keeping him at arm's-length the whole time, and she was doing it so as not to make him contemptible before his daughter." "It must have been hard.

And Rose ?" "Rose didn't seem very well.

He looks thin and pale; but he's sweeter than ever.