Since she has been living with you she has grown from a child to a woman.

When I was talking with her in the garden on Saturday night I felt this change more distinctly than I had ever done before.

I understood that it had made a change in myself.

I love her, Mr.
Snowdon, and it's my dearest hope that she may come to feel the same for me.' Michael was more agitated than the speaker; he raised a hand to his forehead and closed his eyes as if the light pained them.

But the smile with which he speedily answered Sidney's look of trouble was full of reassurance.
'You couldn't have said anything that would give me more pleasure,' he replied, just above his breath.