"He will know what _that_ means!" she said gaily.
It was useless to attempt making a second remonstrance.

I rang the bell, under protest (imagine her receiving a present from a gentleman to whom she had spoken for the first time that morning!)--and the groom was sent off to Browndown with the letter.

In making this concession, I privately said to myself, "I shall keep a tight hand over Oscar; he is the manageable person of the two!" The interval before the return of the groom was not an easy interval to fill up.

I proposed some music.

Lucilla was still too full of her new interest to be able to give her attention to anything else.