And now Miss Falbe and I are going to leave you two.

Be rather a long time, dear Michael, so that Mr.Falbe can tell you what he thinks of me, and his sister shall tell me what she thinks of you.

Afterwards you and I will tell each other, if it is not too fearful." This did not express quite accurately Lady Barbara's intentions, for she chiefly wanted to find out what she thought of Sylvia.
"And you are great friends, you three ?" she said as they settled themselves for the prolonged absence of the two men.
Sylvia smiled; she smiled, Aunt Barbara noticed, almost entirely with her eyes, using her mouth only when it came to laughing; but her eyes smiled quite charmingly.
"That's always rather a rash thing to pronounce on," she said.

"I can tell you for certain that Hermann and I are both very fond of him, but it is presumptuous for us to say that he is equally devoted to us." "My dear, there is no call for modesty about it," said Barbara.

"Between you--for I imagine it is you who have done it--between you you have made a perfectly different creature of the boy.