Aminta would not hear of an abandonment of the Memoirs.

She spoke on the subject to my lord as to a husband pardoned.
She was not less affable and pleasant with him out of Weyburn's hearing.
My lord earned her gratitude for his behaviour to Selina Collett, to whom he talked interestedly of her favourite pursuit, as he had done on the day when, as he was not the man to forget, her arrival relieved him of anxiety.

Aminta, noticed the box on the seat beside him.
They drove up to their country house in time to dress leisurely for dinner.

Nevertheless, the dinner-hour had struck several minutes before she descended; and the earl, as if not expecting her, was out on the garden path beside the river bank with Selina.

She beckoned from the step of the open French window.
He came to her at little Selina's shuffling pace, conversing upon water-plants.
'No jewelry to-day ?' he said.
And Aminta replied: 'Carstairs has shown me the box and given the key.