"At least, from a conventional point of view.

Certainly I shouldn't let any so-called moral scruples spoil the happiness of any one I cared about.

However, I suppose you would, and so we're all to be offered up on the altar of this twopenny-halfpenny promise you've made to Dr.Selwyn ?" Sara laughed and kissed her.
"I'm afraid you are," she said.
If anything could have reconciled her to the sacrifice of inclination she had made in returning to Monkshaven, it would have been the warmth of the welcome extended to her on her arrival.

Selwyn and Molly met her at the station, and Jane Crab, resplendent in a new cap and apron donned for the occasion, was at the gate when at last the pony brought the governess-cart to a standstill outside.

Even Mrs.Selwyn had exerted herself to come downstairs, and was waiting in the hall to greet the wanderer back.
"It will be a great comfort to have you back, my dear," she said with unwonted feeling in her voice, and quite suddenly Sara felt abundantly rewarded for the many weary hours upstairs, trying to win Mrs.Selwyn's interest to anything exterior to herself.
"You're looking thinner," was Selwyn's blunt comment, as Sara threw off her hat and coat.