With Robert near, she was courageous.

Even the perturbed baronet experienced a new sensation as his troubled glance fell before her searching eyes.

His daughter had left him a joyous, heedless girl.

He found her a woman, strong, self-reliant, purposeful.
Yet he kept on, choosing the most straightforward means as the only honorable way of clearing a course so beset with unsuspected obstacles.
"It is only reasonable, Iris, that your affianced husband should suffer an agony of apprehension on your account, and do all that was possible to effect your rescue." "My--affianced--husband ?" "Well, my dear girl, perhaps that is hardly the correct phrase from your point of view.

Yet you cannot fail to remember that Lord Ventnor--" "Father, dear," said Iris solemnly, but in a voice free from all uncertainty, "my affianced husband stands here! We plighted our troth at the very gate of death.