Elise, impressed by her hints and allusions, believed in the idealized Jimmy as thoroughly as A.O.intended she should.
For several days A.O.had been in a quandary, for her mother's last letter had announced a danger which had never entered her thoughts as being imminent.

"Jimmy Woods will be in Washington soon.

He is going up with his uncle, who has some business at the patent office.

I have given him a note to Madam Chartley, granting him my permission to call on you.
He is in an agony of apprehension over the trip to Warwick Hall.

He is so afraid of meeting strange girls.