A bit wild, but not more so than became his station.

And if Miss Champion had been kinder with him the trouble need never have happened." I had often noticed a curious hostility in Maureen towards Miss Champion, and had wondered at it, since she was so devoted to us all.
"She tell the story, indeed!" she went on with bitterness.

"If she tells it she'd better keep back nothing.

Why did she send him to get consolation from other ladies?
He was always true-hearted from a child.
And if Miss Cardew had a fancy for him, who should blame her ?" Now, I had heard dimly of Miss Cardew who was an heiress, and of how Sir Jasper Tuite had tried to abduct her, but somehow I had never heard the whole of the story.

People had dropped talking about it as soon as they had discovered my presence.