He waited in suspense for Katharine to continue.

She had said that he might be very happy with some one he loved in that way.
"I don't see why it shouldn't last with you," she resumed.

"I can imagine a certain sort of person--" she paused; she was aware that he was listening with the greatest intentness, and that his formality was merely the cover for an extreme anxiety of some sort.

There was some person then--some woman--who could it be?
Cassandra?
Ah, possibly-- "A person," she added, speaking in the most matter-of-fact tone she could command, "like Cassandra Otway, for instance.

Cassandra is the most interesting of the Otways--with the exception of Henry.