Grimes transferred his objectionable affection and Barbara was not even asked to be wife number three.

Brewster's campaign was so ardent that he neglected other duties deplorably, falling far behind his improvident average.

With Grimes disposed of, he once more forsook the battlefield of love and gave his harassed and undivided attention to his own peculiar business.
The fast-and-loose game displeased Miss Barbara greatly.

She was at first surprised, then piqued, then resentful.

Monty gradually awoke to the distressing fact that she was going to be intractable, as he put it, and forthwith undertook to smooth the troubled sea.