Is there any change in your wife ?" "Not much, I am afraid." "And Mr.Mangan--he thinks that you are safe over here ?" "Perfectly." She looked at him earnestly.

Perhaps she had never admitted, even to herself, how fond she had been of this scapegrace cousin.
"You'll find that no one will have a word to say against you," she told him, "now that you are wealthy and regenerate.

They'll forget everything you want them to.

When will you come and dine here and meet all your relatives ?" "Whenever you are kind enough to ask me," he answered.

"I thought of going down to Dominey to-morrow." She looked at him with a new thing in her eyes--something of fear, something, too, of admiration.
"But--your wife ?" "She is there, I believe," he said.