That such an appeal should be made to her, and in such a way, savoured of danger.

Her woman's intuition gave her the guard, and at once she spoke, smilingly and gently as one recalling a matter in which the concern is not her own: 'Of course! It was selfish of me not to have thought of it, and to have kept you so long waiting.

The fact is, Auntie, that Leonard--I like to call him Leonard, since we were children together, and he is so young; though perhaps it would be more decorous nowadays to say "Mr.
Everard"-- has consulted me about his debts.

You know, Auntie dear, that young men will be young men in such matters; or perhaps you do not, since the only person who ever worried you has been myself.

But I stayed at Oxford and I know something of young men's ways; and as I am necessarily more or less of a man of business, he values my help.