What shocked her most was, that men seemed no longer to believe that she really meant to shun them in earnest, and she was therefore quite nervous if any of them approached her.

When, however, she saw that Torpander did not presume on his acquaintance, and preserved his polite and even respectful manner, she became at last used to his society, and had even a kind of sympathetic feeling for him.

For Tom Robson she had always an unconquerable aversion.

It is true that she saw Tom only from his worst side, when he was drinking.

In the morning, when Robson was sober, there was something of the gentleman about him.