How could she forbid his entry to the houses she frequented?
She was glad to see him.

He showed his pleasure in seeing her.

Remembering his tentative indiscretion on those foreign sands, she reflected that he had been easily checked: and the like was not to be said of some others.
Beautiful women in her position provoke an intemperateness that contrasts touchingly with the self-restraint of a particular admirer.
Her 'impassioned Caledonian' was one of a host, to speak of whom and their fits of lunacy even to her friend Emma, was repulsive.

She bore with them, foiled them, passed them, and recovered her equanimity; but the contrast called to her to dwell on it, the self-restraint whispered of a depth of passion....
She was shocked at herself for a singular tremble 'she experienced, without any beating of the heart, on hearing one day that the marriage of Percy Dacier and Miss Asper was at last definitely fixed.

Mary Paynham brought her the news.