He was one of those young men who will pursue an end out of mere obstinacy, and who, through default of imaginative power, require an event to declare itself before they can appreciate the ways in which it will affect them.

This marriage of his sister with a man of the working class had possibly, he now felt, other aspects than those which alone he had regarded whilst it was merely a matter for speculation.

He was not seriously uneasy, but wished his mother had been somewhat less precipitate.

Well, Adela could not be such a simpleton as to be driven entirely counter to her inclinations in an affair of so much importance.
Girls were confoundedly hard to understand, in short; probably they existed for the purpose of keeping one mentally active.
Letty found Mrs.Waltham sitting alone, she too seemingly not in the best of spirits.

There was something depressing in the stillness of the house.