‘You were energetic, that was all.’

’A gentleman should never be rough to a lady, and a man should never be rough to his own guests.  I hope you will forgive me.’  She answered him by putting out her hand and smiling on him; and so the quarrel was over.

Lady Carbury understood the full extent of her triumph, and was enabled by her disposition to use it thoroughly.  Felix might now come down to Carbury, and go over from thence to Caversham, and prosecute his wooing, and the master of Carbury could make no further objection.  And Felix, if he would come, would not now be snubbed.  Roger would understand that he was constrained to courtesy by the former severity of his language.  Such points as these Lady Carbury never missed.  He understood it too, and...