I don't like her as much as I did." "Why not ?" asked Lawrence.
"You needn't accept a man if you don't want him," said Miss Annie, "but there is no need of being cruel to him, especially when he is laid up.
If she didn't intend to come out to you again, she ought not to have made you believe so.

You did expect her to come, didn't you ?" "Most certainly," said Lawrence, in rather a doleful tone.

"Yes, and there is the chair she was to sit in," said Miss Annie, "while you said seven words about the books and ten thousand about the way your heart was throbbing.

I see Aunt Keswick's hand in that, as plain as can be.

I don't say I'd put her in that chair if I could do it, but I certainly am sorry she disappointed you so.