Hence the introduction to Lord Ormont.

How little extraordinary circumstances are, if only we trace them to the source! But if only it had appeared marvellous, the throbbing woman might have seized on it, as a thing fateful, an intervention distinctly designed to waken the best in her, which was, after all, the strongest.

Yea, she could hope and pray and believe it was the strongest.
She was listening to Isabella Lawrence Finchley, wishing she might have followed to some end the above line of her meditations.
Mrs.Lawrence was changed, much warmer, pressing to be more than merely friendly.

Aminta twice gave her cheek for kisses.

The secretary had spoken of Mrs.Lawrence as having the look of a handsome boy; and Aminta's view of her now underwent a change likewise.