She would be safe in the hands of such a man, and would know nothing of the miseries which her brother had encountered.

Her model may not appear, when thus described, to be a very noble one; but I think it is the model most approved among ladies of her class in England.
She made up her mind on various points during those two hours of solitude.

In the first place, she would of course keep her purpose of returning home on the following day.

It was not probable that Captain Aylmer would ask her to change it; but let him ask ever so much it must not be changed.

She must at once have the pleasure of telling her father that all his trouble about her would now be over; and then, there was the consideration that her further sojourn in the house, with Captain Aylmer as her lover, would hardly be more proper than it would have been had he not occupied that position.