All the world might know that she loved him if all the world chose to inquire about the matter.

She triumphed in her lover, and did not deny even to herself that she was triumphant.
Mrs Eames was delighted to see them.

It was so good in Mr Crosbie to come over and call upon such a poor, forlorn woman as her, and so good in Captain Dale; so good also in the dear girls, who, at the present moment, had so much to make them happy at home at Allington! Little things, accounted as bare civilities by others, were esteemed as great favours by Mrs Eames.
"And dear Mrs Dale?
I hope she was not fatigued when we kept her up the other night so unconscionably late ?" Bell and Lily both assured her that their mother was none the worse for what she had gone through; and then Mrs Eames got up and left the room, with the declared purpose of looking for John and Mary, but bent, in truth, on the production of some cake and sweet wine which she kept under lock and key in the little parlour.
"Don't let's stay here very long," whispered Crosbie.
"No, not very long," said Lily.

"But when you come to see my friends you mustn't be in a hurry, Mr Crosbie." "He had his turn with Lady Julia," said Bell, "and we must have ours now." "At any rate, Mrs Eames won't tell us to do our duty and to beware of being too beautiful," said Lily.
Mary and John came into the room before their mother returned; then came Mrs Eames, and a few minutes afterwards the cake and wine arrived.

It certainly was rather dull, as none of the party seemed to be at their ease.