Clearly he regarded the matter as no concern of hers, whereas a woman claims by natural right a share in the matrimonial projects of all her male relatives with whom she is on a footing of intimacy.

Perhaps the main cause of her displeasure in the first instance had been the fact that things should have got to such a pass without her having as much as suspected the imminence of danger; she regarded Emily as one that had outwitted her.
Dearly would she have liked to be able to meet her brother with the assertion that she had suspected it all along; the impossibility of doing so--not from conscientious scruples, but because in that case it would clearly have been her duty to speak--exasperated her disappointment at the frustration of the match she desired.

Now that she was getting used to the state of things, Wilfrid's behaviour to her became the chief ground of her offence.

It seemed to her that at least he owed some kind of apology for the distress he had naturally caused her; in truth she would have liked him to undertake the task of winning her over to his side.

Between her and her nephew there had never existed a warm confidence, and Wilfrid's present attitude was too much a confirmation of the feeling she had experienced now and then, that his affection was qualified with just a little contempt.