If you have promised not to give me her address let me at least know some way or some place in which I could come across her.

I am sure she will be glad afterwards, and I--I shall be very grateful." Tavernake felt that he was enveloped by something which he did not understand, but his lack of experience was so great that he did not even wonder at his insensibility.
"I shall keep my word to your sister," he announced, "in the spirit as well as the letter.

It is quite useless to ask me to do otherwise." Elizabeth was at first amazed, then angry, how angry she scarcely knew even herself.

She had been a spoilt child, she had grown into a spoilt woman.

Men, at least, had been ready enough to do her bidding all her life.