Believe in that and you will surely be saved." Then he turned to Miss Rowley, and they two were soon walking on together, each manifestly interested in what the other was saying, though there was no word of tenderness spoken between them.
Colonel Osborne was now between Mr.and Mrs.Trevelyan.She would have avoided the position had it been possible for her to do so.
While they were falling into their present places, she had made a little mute appeal to her husband to take her away from the spot, to give her his arm and return with her, to save her in some way from remaining in company with the man to whose company for her he had objected; but he took no such step.

It had seemed to him that he could take no such step without showing his hostility to Colonel Osborne.
They walked on along the broad path together, and the Colonel was between them.
"I hope you think it satisfactory,--about Sir Rowley," he said.
"Beggars must not be choosers, you know, Colonel Osborne.

I felt a little disappointed when I found that we were not to see them till February next." "They will stay longer then, you know, than they could now." "I have no doubt when the time comes we shall all believe it to be better." "I suppose you think, Emily, that a little pudding to-day is better than much to-morrow." Colonel Osborne certainly had a caressing, would-be affectionate mode of talking to women, which, unless it were reciprocated and enjoyed, was likely to make itself disagreeable.

No possible words could have been more innocent than those he had now spoken; but he had turned his face down close to her face, and had almost whispered them.

And then, too, he had again called her by her Christian name.