Two or three times she rose and walked up and down the room; and when she saw her deep, dark, troubled eyes in the two old, almost giltless round mirrors, they did not please her as they usually did.

Those eyes were one of the sources from which had sprung Captain Baster's attraction to her.
But there were the Twins; she longed to do so many useful, needful things for them; and marriage with Captain Baster was the way of doing them.

She told herself that he would make an excellent stepfather and husband; that under his unfortunate manner were a good heart and sterling qualities.

She assured herself that she had the power to draw them out; once he was her husband, she would change him.

But still she was ill at ease.