"His engagement to marry? Why, it's just that engagement we loathe!" "But what to do?"!

"Do you mean to say you'll have a regular kick-up with her?" "It will seem very strange to me if you want me. But whatever you ask, whatever you need, that I will always do."

"It's too wonderful, what you've done with the house!"—the visitor met her friend's eyes. They lighted up with joy—that friend herself so pleased with what she had done. This was not at all, in its accidental air of enthusiasm, what Fleda wanted to have said: it offered her as stupidly announcing from the first minute on whose side she was. Such was clearly the way Mrs. Gereth took it: she threw herself upon the delightful girl and tenderly embraced her again; so that Fleda soon went on, with a studied difference and a cooler inspection: "Why, you brought away absolutely everything!" "I think he really believes that if I try hard enough I can make you:" after uttering which words our young lady stopped short and emulated the embrace she had received a few moments before. "Fearfully?" broke from the girl. Somehow, at the word, she was startled.