At the club he met Mr.
Coventry, and told him frankly what he had done.

Mr.Coventry, to his surprise, thanked him warmly.

"She will be mine in two years," said he.
"Little will never be able to make a settlement on her." This remark set Mr.Carden thinking.
Grace watched the window day after day, but Henry never came nor passed.
She went a great deal more than usual into the town, in hopes of meeting him by the purest accident.

She longed to call on Mrs.Little, but feminine instinct withheld her; she divined that Mrs.Little must be deeply offended.
She fretted for a sight of Henry, and for an explanation, in which she might clear herself, and show her love, without being in the least disobedient to her father.

Now all this was too subtle to be written.