What beautiful fidelity.

What a contrast to "most men." "Not one man in a hundred would have acted in that chivalrous manner," was the feminine verdict of Hampshire.
A wave of cheap sentiment overflowed the Bellairs family, in which Colonel Bellairs floated complacently like a piece of loose seaweed, and in which even Aunt Mary underwent a dignified undulation.
Bessie alone was unmoved.
"You said, 'Yes' too soon," she remarked to Magdalen in private.

"I should never have thought you would be so lacking in true dignity.

He goes away for fifteen years and I should not wonder a bit if he had thought of someone else in the interim for all you know to the contrary--men are like that--and then he just lounges in and says 'Marry me,' and you agree in a second.

You might at any rate have made him wait for his answer till after tea.