Fortunately Jack was curiously cautious for so young a man.

That had been one of the reasons why she had been tempted to--well--to make him lose his head.
And then another figure, one of far greater importance and moment to herself than poor Jack Tosswill, came and challenged Enid Crofton to anxious attention.

How did she stand with regard to Godfrey Radmore?
She stopped in her pacing, and stared straight before her.

For the first time in her life she was quite at a loss as to what a man, of whom she was seeing a great deal, really felt about her.
Rosamund Tosswill was very young, and Enid secretly thought her very stupid, but there could be no doubt as to her essential truthfulness.
Now, a day or two ago, Rosamund had said: "Isn't it funny of Godfrey?
He told Janet when he first came here that he had made up his mind to remain a bachelor!" And yet they two, she, Enid, and Godfrey, had had something tantamount to an emotional little scene the first time he had come to see her at The Trellis House.

True, it had only lasted two or three seconds, but while it lasted it had been intense.