"You must do me justice too.
I received an invitation to your uncle's more than a week ago, and I declined it." She betrayed surprise.

"From whom was your invitation ?" "From Mr.Ralph Touchett, whom I suppose to be your cousin.

I declined it because I had not your authorisation to accept it.

The suggestion that Mr.Touchett should invite me appeared to have come from Miss Stackpole." "It certainly never did from me.

Henrietta really goes very far," Isabel added.
"Don't be too hard on her--that touches ME." "No; if you declined you did quite right, and I thank you for it." And she gave a little shudder of dismay at the thought that Lord Warburton and Mr.Goodwood might have met at Gardencourt: it would have been so awkward for Lord Warburton.
"When you leave your uncle where do you go ?" her companion asked.
"I go abroad with my aunt--to Florence and other places." The serenity of this announcement struck a chill to the young man's heart; he seemed to see her whirled away into circles from which he was inexorably excluded.