Flushed and embarrassed! Had it indeed been done already?
or would Aldous settle it on this walk?
To judge from his manner and hers, the thing was going with rapidity.

Well, well, there was nothing for it but to hope for the best.
On their way through the hall she stopped him, her hand still in his arm.

Aldous was in front, at the door, looking for a light shawl she had brought with her.
"I should like to thank you," she said shyly, "about the Hurds.

It will be very kind of you and Mr.Raeburn to find them work." Lord Maxwell was pleased; and with the usual unfair advantage of beauty her eyes and curving lips gave her little advance a charm infinitely beyond what any plainer woman could have commanded.
"Oh, don't thank me!" he said cheerily.

"Thank Aldous.