And I suspect she had told her friend Miss Nunn all about me.

Perhaps to put Miss Nunn on her guard--Heaven knows!' He laughed merrily.
'Miss Nunn, I dare say, needs no protection against you.' 'I had an odd thought whilst I was there.' Everard leaned his head back, and half closed his eyes.

'Miss Nunn, I warrant, considers herself proof against any kind of wooing.

She is one of the grandly severe women; a terror, I imagine, to any young girl at their place who betrays weak thoughts of matrimony.

Now, it's rather a temptation to a man of my kind.