Once or twice Trevelyan thought that he would say a word in token, as it were, of repentance.
Like the naughty child who knew that he was naughty, he was trying to be good.

But he could not do it.

The fiend was too strong within him.
She must have known that there was a proposition for her father's return through Colonel Osborne's influence.

As that man at the club had heard it, how could she not have known it?
When they got out at Lady Milborough's door he had spoken to neither of them.
There was a large dull party, made up mostly of old people.

Lady Milborough and Trevelyan's mother had been bosom friends, and Lady Milborough had on this account taken upon herself to be much interested in Trevelyan's wife.