She had, as she thought, said and done enough for one day in
Maurice's favour. And she had no idea, as she declared to herself,
of being lectured by aunt Sarah.
"Dearest Marion," he said to her, as the quadrille came to a close,
"it is an your power to make me so happy,--so perfectly happy."
"But then people have such different ideas of happiness," she
replied. "They can't all see with the same eyes, you know." And so
they parted.
But during the early part of the evening she was sufficiently
discreet; she did waltz with Lieutenant Graham, and polk with Captain
Ewing, but she did so in a tamer manner than was usual with her, and
she made no emulous attempts to dance down other couples. When she
had done she would sit down, and then she consented to stand up for
two quadrilles with two very tame gentlemen, to whom no lover could
object.
"And so, Marian, your wings are regularly clipped at last," said
Julia Davis coming up to her.
"No more clipped than your own," said Marian.
"If Sir Rue won't let you waltz now, what will he require of you when
you're married to him?"
"I am just as well able to waltz with whom I like as you are, Julia;
and if you say so in that way, I shall think it's envy.
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