But of course she may have had money of her own." Janet looked at him rather hard.

A disagreeable suspicion had entered her mind.

She wondered whether there was anything like an "understanding" between the man she was talking to and the tenant of The Trellis House.
If so, she wished with all her heart that Godfrey Radmore had kept away.
Why stir up embers they had all thought were dead, if he was going to marry this very pretty but, to her mind, second-rate little woman, as soon as a decent time had elapsed?
"What are your plans for the future ?" she asked.

"Are you going to settle down, or are you going to travel a bit ?" ("After all, he won't be able to marry Mrs.Crofton for at least another six months," she said to herself.) "Oh, I mean to settle down." His answer was quick, decisive, final.
He went on: "My idea is to find a place, not too far from here, that I can buy; and my plan is to go about and look for it now.

That's why I've hired a motor for a month.