6/11 But she hadn't, because he had told her not, and, of course, she didn't want to; she liked coming to Mr.Stone so much. And she got on very well, and she liked London, and she liked the shops. She mentioned neither Hughs nor Mrs.Hughs.In all this rigmarole, told with such obvious purpose, stolidity was strangely mingled with almost cunning quickness to see the effect made; but the dog-like devotion was never quite out of her eyes when they were fixed on Hilary. It touched one of the least conceited and most amiable of men profoundly. He felt it an honour that anything so young as this should regard him in that way. |