Her eyes always fell instantly when he looked at her, and she seemed sedulously to avoid his gaze.

If he spoke to her, the colour mounted to her face, and she seemed strangely embarrassed.

The fact of her having received a letter from Mr.Lyon, the contents of which he knew, as it came open in one received by himself from that gentleman, was not a sufficient explanation of so entire a change in her deportment.
Mr.Markland sought the earliest opportunity to confer with his wife on the subject of Fanny's altered state of mind, and the causes leading thereto; but the conference did not result in much that was satisfactory to either of them.
"Have you said any thing to her about Mr.Lyon ?" asked Mr.Markland.
"Very little," was answered.

"She thought it would only be courteous to reply to his letter; but I told her that, if he were a true man, and had a genuine respect for her, he would not wish to draw her into a correspondence on so slight an acquaintance; and that the only right manner of response was through you." "Through me!" "Yes.

Your acknowledgment, in Fanny's name, when you are writing to Mr.Lyon, will be all that he has a right to expect, and all that our daughter should be permitted to give." "But if we restrict her to so cold a response, and that by second-hand, may she not be tempted to write to him without our knowledge ?" "No, Edward.