Having satisfied herself, she released the attention of Gabriel, who had other subjects of conversation with May Newt than his quarrel with her brother for the favor of Hope Wayne.
But Arthur Merlin observed that while Hope Wayne listened with her ears to him, with her eyes she listened to Lawrence Newt.

His simple, unselfish, and therefore unconscious urbanity--his genial, kindly humor--and the soft, manly earnestness of his face, were not unheeded--how could they be ?--by her.

Since the day the will was read he had been a faithful friend and counselor.

It was he who negotiated for her house.

It was he who daily called and gave her a thousand counsels in the details of management, of which every woman who comes into a large property has such constant need.