"If they are nice, let them stand on their own merits.

If not, they are disagreeable people who know a deal too much about you.
Miss Diana should have consulted me!" The Roughsedges arrived early, and found Diana alone in the drawing-room.

Again Captain Roughsedge thought her pale, and was even sure that she had lost flesh.

This time it was hardly possible to put these symptoms down to Marsham's account.

He chafed under the thought that he should be no longer there in case a league, offensive and defensive, had in the end to be made with Mrs.Colwood for the handling of cousins.