[The Europeans by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Europeans CHAPTER IX 8/37
They were conversing with their customary animation. I suppose they have joined her sister, who, for the hundredth time, was doing the honors of the garden to her foreign cousin." "I suppose you mean Felix," said Acton.
And on Mr.Wentworth's assenting, he said, "And the others ?" "Your sister has not come this evening.
You must have seen her at home," said Mr.Wentworth. "Yes.
I proposed to her to come.
She declined." "Lizzie, I suppose, was expecting a visitor," said the old man, with a kind of solemn slyness. "If she was expecting Clifford, he had not turned up." Mr.Wentworth, at this intelligence, closed the "North American Review" and remarked that he had understood Clifford to say that he was going to see his cousin.
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