"I don't know!" Yet still she left her hands in his and still she listened to him.

That airy reference of his to his poverty affected her favourably.

He would scarcely have made it, she told herself, with an unconscious effort to silence unacknowledged misgivings, if her fortune had been the sole attraction.
"Look here," he said, breaking in upon these hasty meditations, "I don't want you to do anything in a hurry.

Take a little while to think it over.

Let me know to-morrow.