She almost regretted she had made him so very docile.

He would leave the matter altogether to his daughter.

So Aunt Rebecca, as usual, took, as we have said, the carriage of the proceedings.
Since the grand eclaircissement had taken place between Mervyn and Gertrude Chattesworth, they met with as slight and formal a recognition as was possible, consistently with courtesy.

Puddock had now little to trouble him upon a topic which had once cost him some uneasiness, and Mervyn acquiesced serenely in the existing state of things, and seemed disposed to be 'sweet upon' pretty Lilias Walsingham, if that young lady had allowed it; but her father had dropped hints about his history and belongings which surrounded him in her eyes with a sort of chill and dismal halo.

There was something funeste and mysterious even in his beauty; and her spirits faltered and sank in his presence.