Others (led by me) admitted it was likely enough Miss Rachel might be married; but we doubted (for reasons which will presently appear) whether her bridegroom would be Mr.
Franklin Blake.
That Mr.Franklin was in love, on his side, nobody who saw and heard him could doubt.

The difficulty was to fathom Miss Rachel.

Let me do myself the honour of making you acquainted with her; after which, I will leave you to fathom for yourself--if you can.
My young lady's eighteenth birthday was the birthday now coming, on the twenty-first of June.

If you happen to like dark women (who, I am informed, have gone out of fashion latterly in the gay world), and if you have no particular prejudice in favour of size, I answer for Miss Rachel as one of the prettiest girls your eyes ever looked on.

She was small and slim, but all in fine proportion from top to toe.