They are excellently matched.' 'She's only one more.' 'She's one more, and more still.

She has regularly caught him.

She is a born player of the game of hearts, and she knew how to beat him in his own practices.

If there is one woman in the town who has any chance of holding her own and marrying him, she is that woman.' This was true, as it turned out.

By natural proclivity Laura had from the first entered heart and soul into military romance as exhibited in the plots and characters of those living exponents of it who came under her notice.