You should have known how improper such conduct is.

A woman can't be too careful not to be seen alone with I-don't-know-whom.' 'You saw us, papa, and have never said a word.' 'My fault, of course; my fault.

What the deuce could I be thinking of! He, a villager's son; and we, Swancourts, connections of the Luxellians.
We have been coming to nothing for centuries, and now I believe we have got there.

What shall I next invite here, I wonder!' Elfride began to cry at this very unpropitious aspect of affairs.
'O papa, papa, forgive me and him! We care so much for one another, papa--O, so much! And what he was going to ask you is, if you will allow of an engagement between us till he is a gentleman as good as you.

We are not in a hurry, dear papa; we don't want in the least to marry now; not until he is richer.