She had refused him very curtly, and he had borne it well.

He had not been abashed, nor had he become sulky, nor had he tried to melt her by mention of his own misery.

In truth, he had done it very well--only that he should have known better than to make any such attempt at all.
Mr.Saul had been right in one thing.

Of course she told her mother, and of course her mother told her father.

Before dinner that evening the whole affair was being debated in the family conclave.