One would have thought after that business with the will, she would be anxious to make up--to show docility.

In such a relation one expected docility.

But not a bit of it! She grew bolder.

The Squire admitted uncomfortably that it was his own fault--only, in fact, what he deserved for making a land-agent, accountant, and legal adviser out of a poor lady who had merely engaged herself to be his private secretary for classical purposes.
All the same he confessed that she had never yet neglected the classical side of her duties.

His thoughts contrasted the library and the collections as they were now, with what they had been a couple of months before.