It meant merely that he would soon fall to writing letters like this, and he could not expect an answer to it.

But her heart really thanked him, and wished the poor gentleman to take its dumb response as his reward, for being the one sole one who had loved her.
Aminta dwelt on "the one sole one." Lord Ormont's treatment had detached her from any belief in love on his part; and the schoolboy, now ambitions to become a schoolmaster, was behind the screen unlikely to be lifted again by a woman valuing her pride of youth, though he had--behold our deceptions!--the sympathetic face entirely absent from that of Mr.Adolphus Morsfield, whom the world would count quite as handsome--nay, it boasted him.

He enjoyed the reputation of a killer of ladies.

Women have odd tastes, Aminta thought, and examined the gentleman's handwriting.

It pleased her better.