You can scarcely go for a ride with a man of your acquaintance in broad daylight without endangering your reputation.

What would they say--your cousin and Mrs.Abingdon--if they knew that you were here with me now?
They would hold up their hands in horror." The girl's thoughts flashed suddenly to Caryl.

How much freedom might she expect from him?
"It's all very well," she said, with a touch of petulance, "but easy-going husbands don't grow on every gooseberry-bush.

I have never yet met the man who wouldn't want to arrange my life in every detail if I married him." "Yes, you have," said Brandon.
He spoke with deliberate emphasis, and she knew that as he spoke he looked at her in a manner that there could be no mistaking.

Her heart quickened a little, and she felt the colour rise in her face.
"Do you know that I am engaged to Vivian Caryl ?" she said.
"Perfectly," he answered.