She was smiling, but in earnest too.

She loved her sister and her lover so well, that she felt uncomfortable until they were friends; and her heart was too great and faithful for the faintest spark of jealousy.

He had lifted the hand that wore his ring to his lips.
"Your wishes are my law.

I shall do my best to please Rose from to-night." That evening, for the first time, Stanford took a seat beside Rose, and did his best to be agreeable.

Kate smiled approval from her place at the piano, and Doctor Danton, on the other side of Rose, heard and saw all, and did not quite understand.