Heartbreak is a very old-fashioned disorder, associated with poverty of brain.

If Rhoda were what he thought her, she enjoyed this opportunity of studying a modern male, and cared not how far he proceeded in his own investigations, sure that at any moment she could bid him fall back.

The amusement was only just beginning.

And if for him it became earnest, why what did he seek but strong experiences?
Rhoda, in the meantime, had gone home.

She shut herself in her bedroom, and remained there until the bell rang for dinner.
Miss Barfoot entered the dining-room just before her; they sat down in silence, and through the meal exchanged but a few sentences, relative to a topic of the hour which interested neither of them.
The elder woman had a very unhappy countenance; she looked worn out; her eyes never lifted themselves from the table.
Dinner over, Miss Barfoot went to the drawing-room alone.