Perhaps I shall even be able to make acquaintance with Miss Fanny!" He walked away from her.
Diana could not see the instant change of countenance which accompanied the movement.

Urbanity, gentleness, kind indulgence vanished.

Sir James looked anxious and disturbed; and he seemed to be talking to himself.
The rest of the morning passed heavily.

Diana wrote some letters, and devoutly hoped the rain would stop.

In the intervals of her letter-writing, or her study of the clouds, she tried to make friends with Miss Drake and Mrs.Fotheringham.But neither effort came to good.
Alicia, so expansive, so theatrical, so much the centre of the situation, when she chose, could be equally prickly, monosyllabic, and repellent when it suited her to be so.