With him handicapped by awe of her, by almost groveling respect for her ideas and feelings in all man and woman matters, domestic and social, it seemed to her that she could be worsted only by a miracle of stupidity on her part.
Never had he been so nearly "like an ordinary man--like a gentleman"-- as when they set out for the Adirondacks.

She could scarcely believe her own eyes, and she warmed to him and felt that she had been greatly overestimating her task.

He had on one of the suits he had bought ready made that morning.

It was of rough blue cloth--dark blue--most becoming and well draped to show to advantage his lithe, powerful frame, its sinews so much more manly-looking than the muscularity of artificially got protuberances usually seen in the prosperous classes in our Eastern cities.

Grant had selected the suit, had selected all the suits, and had superintended the fittings.