Dear little Blanche!" "Dear little Blanche will immediately come and see you," Gordon replied.
"Immediately, we hope," said Mrs.Vivian.

"We shall be so very glad." Bernard perceived that she wished to say something soothing and sympathetic to poor Gordon; having it, as he supposed, on her conscience that, after having once encouraged him to regard himself as indispensable (in the capacity of son-in-law) to her happiness, she should now present to him the spectacle of a felicity which had established itself without his aid.

"We were so very much interested in your marriage," she went on.

"We thought it so--so delightful." Gordon fixed his eyes on the ground for a moment.
"I owe it partly to you," he answered.

"You had done so much for Blanche.