Nor would he have had her any different.

He wanted just the settings she chose for her fair, fine beauty.

The only change he would have asked would have been in the expression of those violet eyes of hers when they looked at him.
"You wish I hadn't done it!" she exclaimed.

And if he had not glanced away so quickly he would have seen that she was ready to retreat.
"Well, it's not exactly the start I'd been thinking of," replied he, reluctantly but tentatively.
It is not in human nature to refuse to press an offered advantage.

Said Del: "Can't we close up most of the house--use only five or six rooms on the ground floor?
And Mrs.Dorsey's gardener and his helpers will be there.