He could only persist in appealing to her duty to her father.
"You are allowing your quick temper to carry you to strange extremities," he answered.

"If I think it of more importance to hasten a reconciliation with your father than to encourage you to make excursions with a lady whom you have only known for a week or two, what have I done to deserve such an outbreak of anger?
Hush! Not a word more now! Here is the lady herself." As he spoke, Mrs.Vimpany joined them; returning from her interview with her husband at the inn.

She looked first at Iris, and at once perceived signs of disturbance in the young lady's face.
Concealing her anxiety under that wonderful stage smile, which affords a refuge to so many secrets, Mrs.Vimpany said a few words excusing her absence.

Miss Henley answered, without the slightest change in her friendly manner to the doctor's wife.

The signs of disturbance were evidently attributable to some entirely unimportant cause, from Mrs.
Vimpany's point of view.