Brides expectant ought to feel as happy as the day is long." "More cheerful?
Oh, dear, no! She isn't the same that she was at all; but mopes about more than half of her time.

It's just my opinion--spoken between friends--that she cares, now, a great deal more for Henry than she does for Ralph." "Do they ever meet ?" I inquired.
"Not very often." "They have met ?" "Yes, several times." "Have you seen them together ?" "Oh, yes." "How does she act towards him ?" "Not always the same.

Sometimes she is talkative, and sometimes reserved--sometimes as gay as a lark, and sometimes sober enough; as if there were such a weight on her spirits, that she could not smile without an effort." "Does the fact of his presence make any change in her ?" I inquired.
"What I mean is, if she were lively in spirits before he came in, would she grow serious--or if serious, grow excited ?" "Oh, yes, it always makes a change.

I've known her, after being very quiet, and hardly having any thing to say, though in the midst of young company, grow all at once as merry as a cricket, and laugh and joke in a wild sort of way.

And again, when she has been in one of her old, pleasant states of mind I have noticed that she all at once drew back into herself; I could trace the cause to only this--the presence of Henry Wallingford.