It was plain to me that she was waking up to the sad error she had committed--an error, the consequences of which would go with her through life.

Very, very far was she from being indifferent to Wallingford--that I could plainly see.
During the winter, Ralph came up frequently from New York to visit his bride to be.

As he was the nephew of Judge Bigelow, he and Wallingford were, as a thing of course, thrown often together during these visits.
It can hardly excite wonder, that Wallingford maintained a reserved and distant demeanor towards the young man, steadily repelling all familiarity, yet always treating him with such politeness and respect that no cause of offence could appear.

On the part of Dewey, it may be said that he saw little in the grave plodder among dusty law books and discolored parchments, that won upon his regard.

He looked upon him as a young man good enough in his way--a very small way, in his estimation--good enough for S----, and small enough for a country town lawyer.