"I was walking with him for some time before we met the girls.

You are very pale, Marian.
Have you also a headache ?" "I have been playing tennis all day; and I am quite tired out." Soon afterward, when Marian was in bed, and Miss McQuinch, according to a nightly custom of theirs, was seated on the coverlet with her knees doubled up to her chin inside her bedgown, they discussed the adventure very earnestly.
"Dont understand him at all, I confess," said Elinor, when Marian had related what had passed in the plantation.

"Wasnt it rather rash to make a confidant of him in such a delicate matter ?" "That is what makes me feel so utterly ashamed.

He might have known that I only wanted to do good.

I thought he was so entirely above false delicacy." "I dont mean that.