I imagine the engagement was no surprise to you ?" "Of what engagement do you speak ?" he said.
"Why! Pauline and Richard Vandermarck; you know it is quite a settled thing.

And very good for her, I think.

He seems to me just the sort of man to keep her steady and--well, improve her character, you know.

She seems such a heedless sort of girl.

They say her mother ran away and made some horrid marriage, and, I believe, her uncle has had to keep her very strict.