She could see around her the satisfaction which had come from the settlement of that difficult question,--a satisfaction which was perhaps more apparent with her father than even with the others.

Then she knew what she had done, and remembered to have heard that a girl who expresses a doubt is supposed to have gone beyond doubting.

While she was still at Dillsborough there was a feeling that no evil would arise from this if she could at last make up her mind to be Mrs.Twentyman;--but when the settled conviction came upon her, after hearing Reginald Morton's words, then she was much troubled.
He stayed only a couple of days at Cheltenham and during that time said very little to her.

He certainly spoke no word which would give her a right to think that he himself was attached to her.

He had been interested about her, as was his aunt, Lady Ushant, because she had been known and her mother had been known by the old Mortons.