She could not have taken him by the hand so warmly, and looked into his face so keenly, had she not felt for him something stronger than common friendship.
He had turned down Baker Street from the square, and was now walking towards the Regent's Park.

He would go and see the beasts in the Zoological Gardens, and make up his mind as to his future mode of life in that delightful Sunday solitude.

There was very much as to which it was necessary that he should make up his mind.

If he resolved that he would ask Lady Laura Standish to be his wife, when should he ask her, and in what manner might he propose to her that they should live?
It would hardly suit him to postpone his courtship indefinitely, knowing, as he did know, that he would be one among many suitors.

He could not expect her to wait for him if he did not declare himself.