Why not manners ?" He shrugged his shoulders.
"No doubt they will come, but I shall want a lot of polishing.

I wonder--" "Well ?" "Whether any one will ever think it worth while to undertake the task." She raised her eyes and looked him full in the face.

She had made up her mind exactly what to express--and she failed altogether to do it.

There was a fire and a strength in the clear, grey eyes fixed so earnestly upon hers which disconcerted her altogether.

She was desperately angry with herself and desperately uneasy.
"You have the power," she said with slight coldness, "to buy most things.