He hoped that the poor girl would not neglect her meals, and get thin.

He might have made himself comfortable if he had seen her at the cold chicken in the back kitchen.
She could not quite make the matter out.

She rather fancied that her father and Hawker had had some quarrel, the effects of which would wear off, and that all would come back to its old course.

She thought it strange too that her father should be so different from his usual self, and this made her uneasy.

One thing she was determined on, not to give up her lover, come what would.