However, I felt then that she liked me all the better for plain-speaking; one may be tolerably safe with her that she won't take offence unreasonably.

What a picture she made as she pulled the primroses to pieces--it seemed all up with one! And then her smile flashing out--her eagerness to make amends--to sweep away a harsh impression--her pretty gratefulness--enchanting!' On Saturday, at lunch-time, Wallace rushed in for a few minutes to say that he himself had avoided Miss Bretherton all the week, but that things were coming to a crisis.

'I've just got this note from her,' he said despairingly, spreading it out before Kendal, who was making a scrappy bachelor meal, with a book on each side of him, at a table littered with papers.
'Could anything be more prettily done?
If you don't succeed to-morrow, Kendal, I shall have signed the agreement before three days are over!' It was indeed a charming note.

She asked him to fix any time he chose for an appointment with her and her business manager, and spoke with enthusiasm of the play.

'It cannot help being a great success,' she wrote; 'I feel that I am not worthy of it, but I will do my very best.
The part seems to me, in many respects, as though it had been written for me.