And she was very content so far with the result of her adventure.
"I hope nobody will find out I've been here," she said timidly.

"Because if it _did_ get to mother's ears--" "Nobody will find out," he reassured her.
Assuredly his influence was tranquillizing.

Even while he insisted on the difficulties of the situation, he seemed to be smoothing them away.
She was convinced that he would devise some means of changing her mother's absurd purpose and of strengthening her own position.

But when, at the end of the interview, he came round the large table which separated them, and she rose and looked up at him, close, she was suddenly very afraid of him.

He was a tall and muscular man, and he stood like a monarch, and she stood like a child.