It's thought rather pretty--there's what they call a general view.

My daughter too would be so glad--or rather, for she's too young to have strong emotions, I should be so glad--so very glad." And Mr.Osmond paused with a slight air of embarrassment, leaving his sentence unfinished.

"I should be so happy if you could know my daughter," he went on a moment afterwards.
Isabel replied that she should be delighted to see Miss Osmond and that if Madame Merle would show her the way to the hill-top she should be very grateful.

Upon this assurance the visitor took his leave; after which Isabel fully expected her friend would scold her for having been so stupid.

But to her surprise that lady, who indeed never fell into the mere matter-of-course, said to her in a few moments, "You were charming, my dear; you were just as one would have wished you.
You're never disappointing." A rebuke might possibly have been irritating, though it is much more probable that Isabel would have taken it in good part; but, strange to say, the words that Madame Merle actually used caused her the first feeling of displeasure she had known this ally to excite.