They talked on different subjects for some time till the old lady said 'Mr.Somerset's cottage is the one covered with flowers up the lane, I hear.' 'Yes,' said Paula.
'How do you know ?' 'I've been there....

We are going to be married, aunt.' 'Indeed!' replied Mrs.Goodman.

'Well, I thought this might be the end of it: you were determined on the point; and I am not much surprised at your news.

Your father was very wise after all in entailing everything so strictly upon your offspring; for if he had not I should have been driven wild with the responsibility!' 'And now that the murder is out,' continued Paula, passing over that view of the case, 'I don't mind telling you that somehow or other I have got to like George Somerset as desperately as a woman can care for any man.

I thought I should have died when I saw him dancing, and feared I had lost him! He seemed ten times nicer than ever then! So silly we women are, that I wouldn't marry a duke in preference to him.