Mr Glascock, as soon as the door was shut behind Mrs Trevelyan's back,
took a chair and placed it close beside the head of the sofa on which
Nora was sitting. 'Miss Rowley,' he said, 'you and I have known each
other now for some months, and I hope you have learned to regard me as
a friend.'
'Oh, yes, indeed,' said Nora, with some spirit.
'It has seemed to me that we have met as friends, and I can most truly
say for myself, that I have taken the greatest possible pleasure in
your acquaintance. It is not only that I admire you very much,' he
looked straight before him as he said this, and moved about the point
of the stick which he was holding in both his hands 'it is not only
that, perhaps not chiefly that, though I do admire you very much; but
the truth is, that I like everything about you.'
Nora smiled, but she said nothing. It was better, she thought, to let
him tell his story; but his mode of telling it was not without its
efficacy. It was not the simple praise which made its way with her but
a certain tone in the words which seemed to convince her that they were
true.
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