She did begin to see what men might say of him, and the way in which they might speak of his silence, though she was resolved to be as true to him in her faith as ever.

Some exertion of spirit would, indeed, be necessary.

She was beginning to understand in what way the outside world might talk of Harry Annesley, of the man to whom she had given herself and her whole heart.

Then her mother was right.

And as she thought of it she began to justify her mother.