I really think your absence worried him.

Now, don't blush! A handsome, accomplished man may admire a handsome and accomplished woman, without anything wrong being involved.

Because one has a husband, is she not to be spoken to or admired by other men?
Nonsense! That is the world's weak prudery, or rather the common social sentiment based on man's tyranny over woman." As Mrs.Talbot ran on in this strain, Mrs.Emerson had time to reflect and school her exterior.

Toward Major Willard her feelings were those of disgust and detestation.

The utterance of his name shocked her womanly delicacy, but when it was coupled with a sentiment of admiration for her, and an intimation of the probable existence of something reciprocal on her part, it was with difficulty that she could restrain a burst of indignant feeling.