They are not a whit dangerous to me, my dear.

'Tis I that am the wild beast, and 'tis they that must avoid me," and then she added, after a pause--slightly blushing--"I have not the slightest objection even to meet him if chance brings him in my way.
Let them look to that.

My undertaking goes no further than this, that I will not be seen within their gates." But the girls so far understood each other that Patience undertook, rather than promised, to give Mary what assistance she could; and, despite Mary's bravado, she was in such a position that she much wanted the assistance of such a friend as Miss Oriel.
After an absence of some six weeks, Frank, as we have seen, returned home.

Nothing was said to him, except by Beatrice, as to these new Greshamsbury arrangements; and he, when he found Mary was not at the place, went boldly to the doctor's house to seek her.

But it has been seen, also, that she discreetly kept out of his way.