Lambert did not quite understand why she should take this attitude.

If he had been as keen regarding his own affairs of the affections as in the case of Frank Armour and his Indian bride, he had known that every woman has in her mind the occasion when she should and when she should not be wooed, and nothing disappoints her more than a declaration at a time which is not her time.

If it does not fall out as she wishes it, retrospect, a dear thing to a woman, is spoiled.

Many a man has been sent to the right-about because he has ventured his proposal at the wrong time.

What would have occurred to Lambert it is hard to tell; but he saw that something was wrong, and stopped in time.
When General Armour and his party reached Greyhope it was late in the evening.