"WHY do you suppose he never told us he went there?
Do you think he's--do you think he's pleased with her, and yet ashamed of it?
WHY do you suppose he's never spoken of it ?" "Ah, that," Mrs.Palmer said,--"that might possibly be her own doing.
If it is, she's well paid by what your father and I said, because we wouldn't have said it if we'd known that Arthur----" She checked herself quickly.

Looking over her daughter's shoulder, she saw the two gentlemen coming from the corridor toward the wide doorway of the room; and she greeted them cheerfully.

"If you've finished with each other for a while," she added, "Arthur may find it a relief to put his thoughts on something prettier than a trust company--and more fragrant." Arthur came to Mildred.
"Your mother said at lunch that perhaps you'd----" "I didn't say 'perhaps,' Arthur," Mrs.Palmer interrupted, to correct him.

"I said she would.

If you care to see and smell those lovely things out yonder, she'll show them to you.