I think I will.

She will take it as a kind attention, and, though I have little relish for her society, she will be truly welcome as a third to stand between Lady Lowborough and me.
The first time the latter and I were alone together, after that unhappy evening, was an hour or two after breakfast on the following day, when the gentlemen were gone out, after the usual time spent in the writing of letters, the reading of newspapers, and desultory conversation.

We sat silent for two or three minutes.

She was busy with her work, and I was running over the columns of a paper from which I had extracted all the pith some twenty minutes before.

It was a moment of painful embarrassment to me, and I thought it must be infinitely more so to her; but it seems I was mistaken.