Do you know where he is just now ?" Pamela shook her head.
"Why don't you marry him, Pamela ?" "For a very good reason--he hasn't asked me." "Hoots!" said Mrs.Hope, "as if that mattered!" Pamela lifted her eyebrows.

"It is generally considered rather necessary, isn't it ?" she asked mildly.
"You know quite well that he would ask you to-morrow if you gave him the slightest encouragement The man's afraid of you, that's what's wrong." Pamela nodded.
"Is that why you have remained Pamela Reston?
My dear, men are fools, and blind.

And Lewis is modest as well.

But ...forgive me blundering.
I've a long tongue, but you would think at my age I might keep it still." "No, I don't mind your knowing.

I don't think anyone else ever had a suspicion of it.