Priscilla, when she heard what had occurred, expressed to her mother a moderated approval.

According to her views a girl would much more often be right to refuse an offer of marriage than to accept it, let him who made the offer be who he might.

And the fact of the man having been sent away with a refusal somewhat softened Priscilla's anger at his coming there at all.
"I suppose he is a goose," said she to her mother, "and I hope there won't be any more of this kind running after them while they are with us." Nora, when she was alone, wept till her heart was almost broken.

It was done, and the man was gone, and the thing was over.

She had quite sufficient knowledge of the world to realise perfectly the difference between such a position as that which had been offered to her, and the position which in all probability she would now be called upon to fill.