"Mr.Cameron is with Laura a great deal these times." "Is he ?" asked Dick, with another sinking at the heart.
"Oh, yes," Belle replied.

"Some folks in Gridley are nodding their heads wisely, and pretending they can guess what is going to happen before long.

But I'm very certain that there is nothing quite definite as yet.

Indeed, I'm not quite sure that Laura really knows her own mind as yet." Soon after that, Miss Meade requested to be conducted back into the ballroom, to find Greg, who was to be her next partner.
"Now, good gracious, I hope I've really given Cadet Slowpoke a broad enough hint," thought Belle.

"If he doesn't go ahead and speak to Laura now, it'll be because he doesn't care.