What will the vicar say if the arrangement is upset?
What will every one think ?" Damaris pushed her chair back from the table and rose to her feet .-- Forbearance wore threadbare under accusation and complaint.

No, Theresa was not only a little too abject, but a little too disingenuous, thereby putting herself beyond the pale of rightful sympathy.

Even while she protested devotion, self looked out seeking personal advantage.

And that devotion, in itself, shocked Damaris' sense of fitness where it involved her father.

It wasn't Theresa's place to talk of devotion towards him! Moreover the young girl began to feel profoundly impatient of all this to do and bother.