Already she had recognised the fact that this was not a man to be snubbed.

Neither had she, notwithstanding her momentary irritation, any real desire to do so.
"You do not know many people here ?" "I know no one," he confessed.
"I am Elisabeth Landon," she told him.

"Mr.Foley is my uncle.

My mother and I live with him and always help him to entertain." "Hence your interest in a lonely stranger," he remarked.

"Please have no qualms about me.