He also liked Ina Rose, or at least she had always thought so, till that night.
They were friends of the hunting-field rather than of the drawing-room, but they always drifted together wherever they met.

Sir Beverley had never troubled himself about the intimacy.

The girl belonged to the county, and if not quite the brilliant match for Piers that he would have chosen, she came at least of good old English stock.

He knew and liked her father, and he would not have made any very strenuous opposition to an alliance between the two.

The girl was well bred and heiress to the Colonel's estate.