But it is of her I think.

I should be sorry to see her married to him, even if the Earl would consent." "It will never come to that.

And, after all, you may be mistaken in supposing there is anything more than a little flirtation." Mrs.Bellairs shook her head, but said no more.

She knew by experience that her husband would remember what he had heard, and take pains to satisfy himself as to the cause of her anxiety.

She had also (after ten years of wedlock!) implicit faith in his power to do something, she did not know what, to remedy whatever was wrong.
That evening, when the whole family were assembled, the half-abandoned scheme of passing a long day in the country was revived, and the time finally settled.