It is not that I suspect any evil.

I don't think that I am suspicious by nature." "Oh! no," said Fanny.
"But they will each of them get wrong ideas about the other, and about themselves.

Lucy will, perhaps, think that Ludovic means more than he does, and Ludovic will--" But it was not quite so easy to say what Ludovic might do or think; but Lady Lufton went on: "I am sure that you understand me, Fanny, with your excellent sense and tact.

Lucy is clever, and amusing, and all that; and Ludovic, like all young men, is perhaps ignorant that his attentions may be taken to mean more than he intends--" "You don't think that Lucy is in love with him ?" "Oh dear, no--nothing of the kind.

If I thought it had come to that, I should recommend that she should be sent away altogether.