She mentioned to this fortunate woman that Mr.Osmond had asked her to take a look at his daughter, but didn't mention that he had also made her a declaration of love.
"Ah, comme cela se trouve!" Madame Merle exclaimed.

"I myself have been thinking it would be a kindness to pay the child a little visit before I go off." "We can go together then," Isabel reasonably said: "reasonably" because the proposal was not uttered in the spirit of enthusiasm.

She had prefigured her small pilgrimage as made in solitude; she should like it better so.

She was nevertheless prepared to sacrifice this mystic sentiment to her great consideration for her friend.
That personage finely meditated.

"After all, why should we both go; having, each of us, so much to do during these last hours ?" "Very good; I can easily go alone." "I don't know about your going alone--to the house of a handsome bachelor.