Isn't it so ?" Mrs.Welman sadly admitted it was.
"The only thing I can do is to keep an eye on them, and act as I think best; that I will gladly do." And with this very ambiguous promise poor Mrs.Welman was forced to be content.

Whatever his inward view of his own meaning was, Ayre certainly fulfilled to the letter his promise of keeping an eye on them.

Kate was at first much annoyed at his appearance; she thought she saw in him an emissary of Eugene.

Sir Roderick tactfully disabused her mind of this notion, and, without intruding himself, he managed to be with them a good deal, and with Haddington alone a good deal more.

Moreover, even when absent, he could generally have given a shrewd guess where they were and what they were doing.