Mr.Pelham will come another day." Mr.Pelham looked, smiled, bowed, and, as his hostess had moved on, followed her without a word.

The curtain was drawn again either by him or by Mrs.Hilbery.
But her mother had settled the question somehow.

Katharine doubted no longer.
"As I told you last night," she said, "I think it's your duty, if there's a chance that you care for Cassandra, to discover what your feeling is for her now.

It's your duty to her, as well as to me.

But we must tell my mother.