I told him that the vicar had married my mother's sister, and that the two had been father and mother to me since the death of my parents.

He asked if he might venture to call on Doctor Starkweather the next day, mentioning the name of a friend of his, with whom he believed the vicar to be acquainted.

I invited him to visit us, as if it had been my house; I was spell-bound under his eyes and under his voice.

I had fancied, honestly fancied, myself to have been in love often and often before this time.

Never in any other man's company had I felt as I now felt in the presence of _this_ man.