"You'll make her ?" He got up, and on seeing him move Mr.Longdon also rose, so that, facing each other across the room, they exchanged a friendly signal or two.
"I'll make her." III Their hostess's account of Mr.Cashmore's motive for his staying on was so far justified as that Vanderbank, while Mr.Longdon came over to Mrs.
Brook, appeared without difficulty further to engage him.

The lady in question meanwhile had drawn her old friend down, and her present method of approach would have interested an observer aware of the unhappy conviction she had just privately expressed.

Some trace indeed of the glimpse of it enjoyed by Mr.Cashmere's present interlocutor might have been detected in the restlessness that Vanderbank's desire to keep the other pair uninterrupted was still not able to banish from his attitude.
Not, however, that Mrs.Brook took the smallest account of it as she quickly broke out: "How can we thank you enough, my dear man, for your extraordinary kindness ?" The reference was vivid, yet Mr.Longdon looked so blank about it that she had immediately to explain.

"I mean to dear Van, who has told us of your giving him the great happiness--unless he's too dreadfully mistaken--of letting him really know you.

He's such a tremendous friend of ours that nothing so delightful can befall him without its affecting us in the same way." She had proceeded with confidence, but suddenly she pulled up.