"But she knows very well that I should never ask her the question." "All the same," a moment later, "I am sorely puzzled.

Is it only a friendship between those two, or is it something else on David Carlyon's part?
Once or twice I have seen him looking at her as a man only looks at one woman." "If I could venture to give her a hint, to beg her to be careful! Elizabeth is so careless.

She has no idea of her own attractions, and how irresistible she can be.

It is all very well for her to say she is older than David, and that she takes a sisterly interest in him because Theo is so unsatisfactory; but there is no need to give him so much of her company.

Oh, no need at all, and it will only make people talk." And here the careful elder sister sighed as though she were oppressed with her responsibilities.
"Elizabeth is only thirty," she went on.