"How did this Rhoda, with her absurd name, think of meeting you to tell you such stuff?
Indeed, there's a simplicity in some of these young women--" She said the remainder to herself.
"She's really very innocent and good," Algernon defended Rhoda, "she is.
There isn't a particle of nonsense in her.

I first met her in town, as I stated, at the Bank; just on the steps, and we remembered I had called a cab for her a little before; and I met her again by accident yesterday." "You are only a boy in their hands, my cousin Algy!" said Mrs.Lovell.
Algernon nodded with a self-defensive knowingness.

"I fancy there's no doubt her sister has written to her that she's married.

It's certain she has.

She's a blunt sort of girl; not one to lie, not even for a sister or a lover, unless she had previously made up her mind to it.