I think we will walk towards them.' 'You had made me hope,' he continued (his thoughts apparently far away from the rain and the wind and the possibility of shelter), 'that you might change your mind, and give to your original promise a liberal meaning in renewing it.

In brief I mean this, that you would allow it to merge into an engagement.

Don't think it presumptuous,' he went on, as he held the umbrella over her; 'I am sure any man would speak as I do.

A distinct permission to be with you on probation--that was what you gave me at Carlsruhe: and flinging casuistry on one side, what does that mean ?' 'That I am artistically interested in your family history.' And she went out from the umbrella to the shelter of the hotel where she found her aunt and friend.
De Stancy could not but feel that his persistence had made some impression.

It was hardly possible that a woman of independent nature would have tolerated his dangling at her side so long, if his presence were wholly distasteful to her.