I get dreadfully nervous sometimes, living in such an outlandish place; and Sherton is so far to send to.
No doubt you feel Hintock to be a great change after watering-place life." "I do.

But it is home.

It has its advantages and its disadvantages." Grace was thinking less of the solitude than of the attendant circumstances.
They chatted on for some time, Grace being set quite at her ease by her entertainer.

Mrs.Charmond was far too well-practised a woman not to know that to show a marked patronage to a sensitive young girl who would probably be very quick to discern it, was to demolish her dignity rather than to establish it in that young girl's eyes.

So, being violently possessed with her idea of making use of this gentle acquaintance, ready and waiting at her own door, she took great pains to win her confidence at starting.
Just before Grace's departure the two chanced to pause before a mirror which reflected their faces in immediate juxtaposition, so as to bring into prominence their resemblances and their contrasts.