She gave him one glance as if to reassure him as he caught her up, but said not a word, good or bad, till they had passed through the house again, and were well on their way down the drive.
"Well ?" said Jack.
Jenny hesitated a moment.
"I suppose anyone else would have called him violent," she said.

"Poor old dear! But it seems to me he behaved rather well on the whole--considering all things." "What's he going to do ?" "If one took anything he said as containing any truth at all, it would mean that he was going to flog Frank with his own hands, kick him first up the steps of the house then down again, and finally drown him in the lake with a stone round his neck.

I think that was the sort of programme." "But--" "Oh! we needn't be frightened," said Jenny.

"But if you ask me what he will do, I haven't the faintest idea." "Did you suggest anything ?" "He knows what my views are," said jenny.
"And those ?" "Well--make him a decent allowance and let him alone." "He won't do that!" said Jack.

"That's far too sensible." "You think so ?" "That would solve the whole problem, of course," went on Jack, "marriage and everything.