She wants me to speak well of her; if she intends to deceive him she expects me to back her up.
The wish is doubtless natural, but for a proud girl it is rather an odd favor to ask.

Oh yes, she 's a proud girl, even though she has been able to arrange it with her conscience to make a mercenary marriage.

To expect me to help her is perhaps to treat me as a friend; but she ought to remember--or at least I ought to remember--that Gordon is an older friend than she.

Inviting me to help her as against my oldest friend--is n't there a grain of impudence in that ?" It will be gathered that Bernard's meditations were not on the whole favorable to this young lady, and it must be affirmed that he was forcibly struck with an element of cynicism in her conduct.

On the evening of her so-called midnight visit to the Kursaal she had suddenly sounded a note of sweet submissiveness which re-appeared again at frequent intervals.