When seated, she was the cynosure of all eyes.

Kate Vavasor became immediately aware that a great sensation had been occasioned by their entrance, and equally aware that none of it was due to her.

I regret to say that this feeling continued to show itself throughout the whole service.

How many ladies of forty go to church without attracting the least attention! But it is hardly too much to say that every person in that church had looked at Mrs Greenow.

I doubt if there was present there a single married lady who, on leaving the building, did not speak to her husband of the widow.