And the circumstances of her own unhappy affection tended to confirm her in this way of thinking.

Letty Tew certainly thought otherwise, but was not Letty's own heart too exclusively occupied by worldly considerations?
Yet it said 'love.' Perchance that was something which would come after marriage; the promise, observe, concerned the future.

But she was not merely indifferent; she shrank from Mutimer.
She returned home from the lecture to-day full of dread--dread more active than she had yet known.

And it drove her to a step she had timidly contemplated for more than a week.

She stole from the house, bent on seeing Mr.Wyvern.She could not confess to him, but she could speak of the conflict between her mother's will and her own, and beg his advice; perhaps, if he appeared favourable, ask him to intercede with her mother.