It might, perhaps, be her duty to give herself to him without loving him,--because he was so good; but she was sure that she did not love him.
In the evening the bishop came, and his wife, Mrs Yeld, and the Hepworths of Eardly, and Father John Barham, the Beccles priest.

The party consisted of eight, which is, perhaps, the best number for a mixed gathering of men and women at a dinner-table,--especially if there be no mistress whose prerogative and duty it is to sit opposite to the master.

In this case Mr Hepworth faced the giver of the feast, the bishop and the priest were opposite to each other, and the ladies graced the four corners.

Roger, though he spoke of such things to no one, turned them over much in his mind, believing it to be the duty of a host to administer in all things to the comfort of his guests.

In the drawing-room he had been especially courteous to the young priest, introducing him first to the bishop and his wife, and then to his cousins.