He knows me so very slightly.

But, in calling here for the first time--' An unusual embarrassment checked him.
'I will explain to father your very natural wish to speak of these things,' said Marian, with tact.
She thought uneasily of her mother in the next room.

To her there appeared no reason whatever why Jasper should not be introduced to Mrs Yule, yet she could not venture to propose it.

Remembering her father's last remarks about Milvain in connection with Fadge's magazine, she must wait for distinct permission before offering the young man encouragement to repeat his visit.

Perhaps there was complicated trouble in store for her; impossible to say how her father's deep-rooted and rankling antipathies might affect her intercourse even with the two girls.