Whenever the estranged parties met, which now and then was inevitable in a little town, they bowed with distant politeness, but exchanged no words.

Everything was conducted with complete propriety.

The old lady, knowing how beloved an intimate of mine was Betty, alluded but once to the broken engagement.
That was when Betty got married.
"It has been a great unhappiness to me, Major," she said.

"In spite of her daring ways, which an old woman like myself can't quite understand, I was very fond of her.

She was just the girl for Leonard.