Don't you, Leonard ?' The challenge was so direct, and the position he was in so daringly put, that he had to acquiesce.

Miss Rowly, who had looked on with a frown of displeasure, said coldly: 'I know you are your own mistress, my dear.

But surely it would be better if Mr.Everard would consult with his solicitor or his father's agent, or some of his gentlemen friends, rather than with a young lady whose relations with him, after all, are only those of a neighbour on visiting terms.

For my own part, I should have thought that Mr.
Everard's best course would have been to consult his own father! But the things that gentlemen, as well as ladies do, have been sadly changed since my time!' Then, rising in formal dignity, she bowed gravely to the visitor before leaving the room.
But the position of being left alone in the room with Leonard did not at all suit Stephen's plans.

Rising quickly she said to her aunt: 'Don't stir, Auntie.