In God's name, let Marsham take the thing into his own hands!--stand on his own feet!--dissipate a nightmare which ought never to have arisen--and gather the girl to his heart.
* * * * * Meanwhile Fanny's attention--and the surging anger of her thoughts--were more and more directed upon the girl with the fair hair opposite.

A natural bond of sympathy seemed somehow to have arisen between her and this Miss Drake--Diana's victim.

Alicia Drake, looking up, was astonished, time after time, to find herself stared at by the common-looking young woman across the table, who was, she understood, Miss Mallory's cousin.

What dress, and what manners! One did not often meet that kind of person in society.

She wished Oliver joy of his future relations.
* * * * * In the old panelled drawing-room the coffee was circulating.