But how would _she_ respond?
How would she like it--this parade that was to be made of her--these people that must be introduced to her?
He was full of anxieties.
Yet in many ways his mind had been easier of late.

During the last week she had been very gentle and good to him--even Miss Raeburn had been pleased with her.

There had been no quoting of Wharton when they met; and he had done his philosopher's best to forget him.

He trusted her proudly, intensely; and in four weeks she would be his wife.
"Can you bear it ?" he said to her in a laughing whisper as she and her mother emerged from the cloak-room.
"Tell me what to do," she said, flushing.

"I will do my best.