CHAPTER XXXIV.
A PLAN WHICH SEEMS TO SUIT EVERYBODY Since her drive home from Thorbury with Ralph Haverley, Cicely Drane had not ceased to consider the hypothesis which had been suggested to her that day by La Fleur; but this consideration was accompanied by no plan of action, no defined hopes, no fears, no suspicions, and no change in her manner toward the young man, except that in accordance with her mother's prudential notions, which had been indicated to her in a somewhat general way, she had restricted herself in the matter of tete-a-tetes and dual rambles.
She looked upon the relations between Ralph and herself in the most simple and natural manner possible.

She was enjoying life at Cobhurst.

It delighted her to see her mother so contented and so well.

She was greatly interested in her work, for she was a girl of keen intelligence, and thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed the novel theories and reflections of Dr.Tolbridge.She thought it the jolliest thing in the world to have La Fleur here with them.

She was growing extremely fond of Miriam, who, although a good deal younger than herself, appeared to be growing older with wonderful rapidity, and every day to be growing nearer and dearer to her, and she liked Ralph better than any man she had ever met.