However, I am delighted to hear it is all right now.

I only wish Mr Pottinger had consulted you, Edward, before he took such a step." "Oh, he did," blurted out Rosalind.

"But, as I told him, of course papa not knowing what a villain he was, would believe all he said.

It was all the more shame of him to go and impose on papa, who hasn't had time to get to know all the people about the place, instead of going to Auntie or Mr Armstrong, who know all of them.

I don't think he'll do it again," said the young lady, firing up like a charming Amazon, at the remembrance of her interview.
Captain Oliphant pushed his chair brusquely back from the table and got up, looking, so Armstrong thought, not as proud of his loyal daughter as he should have been.
"Eva," said he drily, "I shall be in the library if you want me.