If he rose earlier than usual, hoping to meet her in the breakfast-room, she invariably remained later than usual upstairs.

He could not, contrive as he would, obtain five minutes with her.

In vain he asked his sister to manage an interview for him; Marion seemed instinctively aware of what she wanted.

When Miss Lyster suggested a walk in the garden, Marion, knowing that her brother would be sure to appear, declined it.

Her only safeguard lay in continually seeking Lady Ridsdale's society.
"The dear child is so warmly attached to me!" said the mistress of Thorpe Castle to her husband.