He was conscious that people pointed her out in the restaurant as Morton Bassett's daughter, and he did not like the responsibility of this unauthorized chaperonage.
Mrs.Bassett was going to a sanatorium as soon as she was able to move; but for three weeks Marian was on Harwood's hands.

Her bland airs of proprietorship amused him when they did not annoy him, and when he ventured to remonstrate with her for her unnecessary abandonment of school to take care of her mother, her pretty _moue_ had mitigated his impatience.

She knew the value of her prettiness.

Dan was a young man and Marian was not without romantic longings.

Just what passed between her and her mother Harwood could not know, but the hand that ruled indulgently in health had certainly not gained strength in sickness.
This was in January when the theatres were offering an unusual variety of attractions.