Thus do our opportunities pass before we realise that they are at hand.
Instinctively Geoffrey had glanced towards Beatrice.

He did not know if this idea was agreeable to her.

He knew that her work was hard, and he did not wish to put extra trouble upon her, for he guessed that the burden of looking after Effie would ultimately fall upon her shoulders.
But her face told him nothing: it was quite passive and apparently indifferent.
"You are very kind, Mr.Granger," he said, hesitating.

"I don't want to go away from Bryngelly just at present, and it would be a good plan in some ways, that is if the trouble to your daughters would not be too much." "I am sure that it is an excellent plan," broke in Lady Honoria, who feared lest difficulties should arise as to her appropriation of Anne's services; "how lucky that I happened to mention it.

There will be no trouble about our giving up the rooms at Mrs.Jones's, because I know she has another application for them." "Very well," said Geoffrey, not liking to raise objections to a scheme thus publicly advocated, although he would have preferred to take time to consider.