"He was naturally grateful ?" he asked sympathetically.
"Not now, perhaps, but some day he will be!" Laura's light hazel eyes flashed, and Lord Elterton laughed again as he answered lightly, "There certainly is a poor spirit in the old boy if he doesn't feel under a lifelong obligation to you for your goodness.

I should, if it were me .-- Look, though, we shall have to go now; they are beginning to say good night." And as they found the others he thought to himself, "Well, men may be poachers like I am, but I am hanged if they are such weasels as women!" Lady Anningford joined Lady Ethelrida that night in her room, after they had seen Zara to hers, and they began at once upon the topic which was thrilling them all.
"There is something the matter, Ethelrida, darling," Lady Anningford said.

"I have talked to Tristram for a long time to-night, and, although he was bravely trying to hide it, he was bitterly miserable; spoke recklessly of life one minute, and resignedly the next; and then asked me, with an air as if in an abstract discussion, whether Hector and Theodora were really happy--because she had been a widow.

And when I said, 'Yes, ideally so,' and that they never want to be dragged away from Bracondale, he said, so awfully sadly, 'Oh, I dare-say; but then they have children.' It is too pitiful to hear him, after only a week! What can it be?
What can have happened in the time ?" "It is not since, Anne," Ethelrida said, beginning to unfasten her dress.

"It was always like that.