"Well, it is all right," she said, presently.

"He adores the very ground she walks on; only he's close, and won't show it much." Marty South appeared startled, and could not tear herself away.
Yes, the timber-merchant asserted, he knew that well enough.
Winterborne had been interested in his daughter for years; that was what had led him into the notion of their union.

And he knew that she used to have no objection to him.

But it was not any difficulty about that which embarrassed him.

It was that, since he had educated her so well, and so long, and so far above the level of daughters thereabout, it was "wasting her" to give her to a man of no higher standing than the young man in question.
"That's what I have been thinking," said Mrs.Melbury.
"Well, then, Lucy, now you've hit it," answered the timber-merchant, with feeling.