He knows, no doubt, what my intention is.

In a matter like this I must judge for myself.' She was silent, then asked with apprehension, 'Has it caused trouble ?' 'Of the kind which passes as soon as it has been well talked about,' he answered with a smile; 'nothing more serious.' She could not meet his look.
'And you wish not to return to Oxford ?' 'I have done with that.

I see now that to go back and play the schoolboy would have been impossible; all that is over and a new life beginning--you will be in readiness to come up as soon as I scud for you ?' She looked in his face now with pleading.
'It is too hasty, Wilfrid.

It was better, far better, that we should wait till next year.

Can it be your father's wish that your marriage should take place in his absence?
You know that I have no foolish desires; the more simply everything is done the better it will please me.