One may speculate about anything and everything--if one has the brains.

You certainly are not made to go through life with veiled eyes and a tongue tuned to the common phrases.

Do yourself justice, dear girl.

However other people regard you, I from the first have seen what it was in you to become." It was adroit flattery; Serena reddened, averted her face, smiled a little, and kept silence.
That day he did not follow up his advantage.

But on taking leave of Serena early in the afternoon, he looked into her eyes with expressive steadiness, and again she blushed.
A little later, several ladies were gathered in the drawing-room.