But when it returned to her in due course from her bankers, it was indorsed P.BILBERRY, in a neat scholarly hand, without even a dash of indignation beneath it; and she threw it into the waste-paper basket, with rather a bitter smile.
These were Jane's experiences of offers of marriage.

She had never been loved for her own sake; she had never felt herself really first in the heart and life of another.

And now, when the adoring love of a man's whole being was tenderly, cautiously beginning to surround and envelop her, she did not recognise the reason of her happiness or of his devotion.

She considered him the avowed lover of another woman, with whose youth and loveliness she would not have dreamed of competing; and she regarded this closeness of intimacy between herself and Garth as a development of a friendship more beautiful than she had hitherto considered possible.
Thus matters stood when Tuesday arrived and the Overdene party broke up.

Jane went to town to spend a couple of days with the Brands.