Miss Hunsden was too proud to sue for her favor, and Sir Everard loved her too sensitively to expose her to a possible rebuff.
My lady was unutterably offended by her son's desertion of a whole winter.

She was nothing to him now.

This bold, masculine girl with the horrible boy's name was his all in all now.
Sir Everard Kingsland met with a very cold reception from his lady mother upon his return to Devonshire.

She listened in still disdain to his glowing accounts of the marvels the summer would work in the grand old place.
"And all this for the penniless daughter of a half-pay captain; and Lady Louise might have been his wife." Sir Everard ran heedlessly on.
"You and Milly shall retain your old rooms, of course," he said, "and have them altered or not, just as you choose.

Harrie's room shall be in the south wing--she likes a sunny, southern prospect--and the winter and summer drawing-rooms must be completely refurnished; and the conservatory has been sadly neglected of late, and the oak paneling in the dining-room wants touching up.