She would not own it, and yet she blushed, and yet she thought of it.

If there might be such a man it was not the young clergyman to whom her mother had alluded.
Through all that morning she was very quiet, very pale, and in truth very unhappy.

Her father said no further word to her, and her stepmother had been implored to be equally reticent.

"I shan't speak another word," said Mrs.Masters; "her fortune is in her own hands and if she don't choose to take it I've done with her.

One man may lead a horse to water but a hundred can't make him drink.