"Mr.Howland is ill, and she's nursing him.

I'm taking a few days off--came down to try to sell father's place for him." "You're going to sell Point Helen ?" said Adelaide, politely regretful.
"Then I suppose we shan't see your people here any more.

Your mother'll no doubt spend most of her time abroad, now that Janet is married there." Ross did not answer immediately.

He was looking into the distance, his expression melancholy.

His abstraction gave Adelaide a chance to verify the impression she had got from a swift but femininely penetrating first glance.