He fancies that he is a little in love with me, and he is dazzled, of course, by the idea of Jeanne's fortune.

He wants to play the host to us.

Let him.

I should be glad enough to get away for a few weeks, if only to escape from these pestering letters.

I do think that one's tradespeople might let one alone until the end of the season." Forrest, who was feeling a good deal braver since dinner, on the whole favoured the idea.
"I do not see," he remarked, "why it should not work out very well indeed.