"Are you dreadfully in love with him?"
"I suppose so...I don't know...Don't ask me to examine my feelings!"
"Look at her!" cried Mrs. Brunton. "Isn't that enough? Radiantly happy!"
"But if you're going to marry the man," said Mme. Storey, laughing, "surely you must know the state of your feelings!"
"I want to marry him," said Fay quickly. "Very much. I suppose it's because he needs me so."
Mme. Storey's expression said: Hum! But she did not utter it. She asked when it was going to be.
woman, but devoted to Fay, and people put up with her on that account.
When Fay came to call, business was dropped for the time being. I took her in to my mistress. What a complement they made to each other! the one so dark and tall and wise; the other simple, fair and girlish. Alongside my mistress,