He could perceive that if he expressed the slightest wish in any matter about the house she would attend to it.  There had been a word said about punctuality, and she had become punctual as the hand of the clock.  There was not a glance of her eye, nor a turn of her hand, that he did not watch, and calculate its effect as regarded himself.  But because she was tender to him and observant, he did not by any means allow himself to believe that her heart was growing into love for him.  He thought that he understood the working of her mind.  She could see how great was his disgust at her brother’s doings; how fretted he was by her mother’s conduct.  Her grace, and sweetness, and sense, took part with him against those who were...