Shall I?
Indeed, I hope that some day I may really show you Monkhams." Now when an unmarried man talks to a young lady of really showing her the house in which it will be his destiny to live, he can hardly mean other than to invite her to live there with him.

It must at least be his purpose to signify that, if duly encouraged, he will so invite her.

But Nora Rowley did not give Mr.Glascock much encouragement on this occasion.
"I'm afraid it is not likely that anything will ever take me into that part of the country," she said.

There was something perhaps in her tone which checked Mr.Glascock, so that he did not then press the invitation.
When the ladies were up-stairs in the drawing-room, Lady Milborough contrived to seat herself on a couch intended for two persons only, close to Mrs.Trevelyan.Emily, thinking that she might perhaps hear some advice about Guinness's stout, prepared herself to be saucy.

But the matter in hand was graver than that.