If he wants my society, let him treat me with natural friendliness.

If he's afraid to do it--if Miss Wildmere won't let him--rest assured I won't receive any furtive, deprecatory attentions.
I am abundantly able to take care of myself in my own way." "Oh, Madge, you have so changed! Before you went away the sun seemed to rise and set in Graydon." "Well, the sun now rises in the west and sets in the east--What am I saying?
Well, perhaps, it's true for me, after all.

In the West I gained the power to live a strong, resolute life of my own choosing, and he may as well recognize the truth first as last.

Let him give all his thoughts to Miss Wildmere.

From what I see and have heard she will keep them busy before and after marriage." "He's not engaged to her yet; he said so positively." "Oh, well," Madge replied, with well-assumed indifference, although her heart bounded at the tidings, "it's only a question of time.
There, we've talked enough about _her_.