Some allusion to belief in a favourable opinion of him...

encouragement...

on the part of the mama.
She would have him travelling with us! I foresaw it.' 'You were astonished when it came.' 'We always are.' Victor taunted her softly with having encouraged Mr.Barmby.
She had thought in her heart--not seriously; on a sigh of despondency--that Mr.Barmby espousing the girl would smooth a troubled prospect: and a present resentment at her weakness rendered her shrewd to detect Victor's cunning to cover his own: a thing imaginable of him previously in sentimental matters, yet never accurately and so legibly printed on her mind.

It did not draw her to read him with a novel familiarity; it drew her to be more sensible of foregone intimations of the man he was--irresistible in attack, not impregnably defensive.

Nor did he seem in this instance humanely considerate: if mademoiselle's estimate of the mind of the girl was not wrong, then Mr.Barmby's position would be both a ridiculous and a cruel one.