"I should offer to marry him at once, if I were you.

It will save a lot of trouble, and it will come to just the same in the end." Rachel laughed, but not light-heartedly.

Hester had only put into words a latent conviction of her own which troubled her.
"Dick is the right kind of man to marry," continued Hester, dispassionately.

"What lights he has he lives up to.

If that is not high praise, I don't know what is.