'I cannot imagine, dear,' he said, 'that you should be jealous of any woman; but certainly not of such a one as she.' 'Nor can I imagine,' said Hester, stoutly, 'that I could possibly be jealous of any woman.' And then there was nothing more said about the woman Smith-Cettini.
During all this time there were many family meetings.

Those between Mr.
Caldigate, the father, and old Mr.Bolton were pleasant enough, though not peculiarly cordial.

The banker, though he had been brought to agree to the marriage had not been quite reconciled to it.

His younger son had been able to convince him that it was his duty to liberate his daughter from the oppression of her mother's over-vigilance, and all the rest had followed very quickly,--overwhelming him, as it were, by stern necessity.

When once the girl had come to understand that she could have her own way, if she chose to have a way of her own, she very quickly took the matter into her own management.