"The sooner it is decided, the sooner you may wear your jewels.

No," she went on rapidly.

"Of course you never suspected that Bosio loved you, and he would have been very wrong to let you know it, until your uncle and I had given our permission.

But he was diffident even about mentioning the matter to us.

You cannot have known him so long without having discovered that he has great delicacy of feeling.