I don't think he cares for anyone else in the world excepting these three.

Perhaps I ought to make an exception in _your_ favour--from what I'm told he cherishes a romantic affection for _you_." Miss Pendarth went on: "Mind you--I think there's often a touch of malice about the boy! Timmy wouldn't be at all averse to doing mischief to anyone he didn't like, or whom he thought ill of." "There are a good many grown-up people of whom one can say that," observed Radmore.
And then, almost as if the other had seen into his mind, Miss Pendarth, with a touch of significance in her voice, observed musingly: "I fancy Timmy doesn't much like the pretty young widow who has taken The Trellis House.

The first evening Mrs.Crofton came to see the Tosswills, she got an awful fright.

Timmy's dog, Flick, rushed into the room and began snarling and growling at her.

There was a most disagreeable scene, and from what one of the girls said the other day, it seems to have prejudiced the boy against her." Radmore looked straight into Miss Pendarth's face.