She did not very much like it that he, who was in love with her daughter, had kept coming to the house for six weeks, as though he were waiting for something, inspecting, as though he were afraid he might be doing them too great an honor by making an offer, and did not realize that a man, who continually visits at a house where there is a young unmarried girl, is bound to make his intentions clear.

And suddenly, without doing so, he disappeared.

" It's as well he's not attractive enough for Kitty to have fallen in love with him," thought the mother.