You are very kind," said Miss March, with a maidenly dropping of the eyes.
"Indeed he is kind," broke in the warm-hearted Mrs.Tod.

"He rode all the way to S----, his own self, to fetch the doctor." "Did you, sir?
I thought you only lent your horse." "Oh! I like a night-ride.

And you are sure, madam, that your father is better?
Is there nothing else I can do for you ?" His sweet, grave manner, so much graver and older than his years, softened too with that quiet deference which marked at once the man who reverenced all women, simply for their womanhood--seemed entirely to reassure the young lady.

This, and her own frankness of character, made her forget, as she apparently did, the fact that she was a young lady and he a young gentleman, meeting on unacknowledged neutral ground, perfect strangers, or knowing no more of one another than the mere surname.
Nature, sincerity, and simplicity conquered all trammels of formal custom.

She held out her hand to him.
"I thank you very much, Mr.Halifax.