We want to give a little dinner, dear, to you and to your husband--for him to meet all your friends." Anne tried not to look too grateful.
The upward way, then, was being prepared for him.

Beneficent intelligences were at work, influences were in the air, helping her to raise him.
In her gladness she had failed to see that, considering the very obvious nature of the civility, Fanny Eliott was making the least shade too much of it..