I don't know whether that sort of spirit is likely to secure one's happiness, but I have no doubt it is the wisest and best for this world." Miss Paget could not refrain from an occasional sneer when she wrote to her old companion.

He never returned her sneers, or noticed them.

His letters were always frank, friendly, and brotherly in tone.
"Neither my good opinion nor my bad opinion is of any consequence to him," Diana thought bitterly.

It was late in August when Captain Paget and his _protege_ came to town.

Valentine suggested the wisdom of leaving Diana in her new home uncompromised by any past associations.
But this was a suggestion which Horatio Paget could not accept.