She lives within them quite secure and happy and content.

How determined you are to be sorry for her!' Mr.Tottenham looked at the end of this lively exchange as though he sought for a polite way of conveying to me that I rather was the limited person.

He looked as if he wished he could say things.

The first of them would be, I saw, that he had quite a different conception of Cecily, that it was illuminated by many trifles, nuances of feeling and expression, which he had noticed in his talks with her whenever they had skirted the subject of her adoption by her mother.

He knew her, he was longing to say, better than I did; when it would have been natural to reply that one could not hope to compete in such a direction with an intelligent young man, and we should at once have been upon delicate and difficult ground.