But it might be a little awkward for her.

How long is she staying ?" Will told all he knew of Miss Elvan's projects.

He went on to say that she seemed to him more thoughtful, more serious, than in the old time; to be sure, she had but recently lost her father, and the subduing influence of that event might have done her good.
"You had a lot of talk ?" said Franks.
"Oh, we gossiped in the garden.

Poor old Pomfret has his gout, and couldn't come out with us.

What do you think, by the bye, of her chance of living by art?
She says she'll have to." "By that, or something else, no doubt," Franks replied disinterestedly.
"I know her father had nothing to leave, nothing to make an income." "Are her water-colours worth anything ?" "Not much, I'm afraid, I can't quite see her living by anything of that sort.