In her world of reserves and implications no man would have dared to make himself ridiculous by a visit like this.
"Do you believe that she cares for Stephen ?" she asked bluntly.
"It didn't start with me.

Miss Spencer, that's the lady who lives with us you know, is afraid that Patty sees too much of him.

He is at the house every day--" "Well ?" Corinna waited patiently.

She was not in the least afraid of what Stephen might do.

She knew that she could trust him to be a gentleman; but being a gentleman, she reflected, did not necessarily keep one from breaking a woman's heart.