She liked her cousin, but did not love him.

She was amazed, and even annoyed by the offer.
She had praised him and praised the house so loudly to her mother,-- having in her innocence never dreamed of such a proposition as this,--so that now she found it difficult to give an adequate reason for her refusal.

Yes;--she had undoubtedly said that her cousin was charming, but she had not meant charming in that way.

She did refuse the offer very plainly, but still with some apparent lack of persistency.

When Roger suggested that she should take a few months to think of it, and her mother supported Roger's suggestion, she could say nothing stronger than that she was afraid that thinking about it would not do any good.