The handsome boy had grown into this proud, gallant, gay young man, surrounded by that social prestige which gives graceful confidence to the bearing of any man.

He knew that Hope had heard of his social success; but he could not justly estimate its effect upon her.
Of all those who stood by her Arthur Merlin was the only one who knew that she had ever known Abel, and Arthur only inferred it from Abel's resemblance to the sketch of Manfred, which had evidently deeply affected Hope.

Lawrence Newt, who knew Delafield, had wondered if Abel and Hope had ever met.

Perhaps he had a little fear of their meeting, knowing Abel to be audacious and brilliant, and Hope to be romantic.

Perhaps the anxiety with which he now looked upon the waltz arose from the apprehension that Hope could not help, at least, fancying such a handsome fellow.