Tell me more about her next time you write.

I want to see her with your eyes." But Anna pleaded in vain--on the subject of Elizabeth's merits he kept silence.
But it was quite true that he was at the Wood House nearly every day, and that the sisters always welcomed him most kindly.

Sometimes he dined there, either alone or with the Kestons; or he would stroll across at tea-time, or oftener in the evening, when they were sitting on the terrace.

David Carlyon was often with them; his father had left him by this time.

The young men used to look askance at each other in the dim light, and Malcolm would shake hands with the curate rather stiffly.
"Carlyon was there again," he would say to Amias, when he found his friend smoking in the porch.