He was more at the Cottage than she seemed to like." Maurice hesitated, but could not resist asking a question.
"Was he as much there afterwards as he was before the time I left ?" "More, I think.

Look here, Maurice; Elise first put it into my head that he was running after Lucia, but I saw it plainly enough myself afterwards, and I know you saw it too.

I think we are old enough friends for me to speak to you on such a subject.

Well, my belief is, that before Percy went away, he proposed to Lucia." "Proposed?
Impossible!" "I don't know about that.

He was really in love with her in his fashion--which is not yours, or mine." "And she ?" "Must have refused him, for he went away in a kind of amazed ruefulness, which even you would have pitied." Maurice looked the reverse of pitiful for a moment.
"But that is all supposition," he said.
"Granted.