Chapter 36"Well, Esther, and how do you like Miss Dorset now?" edmund said the next day after thinking about the subject himself for some time. "How did you like it yesterday?"
"Very good – a lot. I like to hear them talk. She entertains me; and it is so extraordinarily pretty that I take great pleasure in looking at it."
"It is her face that is so attractive. It has a wonderful game of function! But wasn't there anything in their conversation that you, Esther, didn't really notice?"
"Oh yes! she shouldn't have talked about her uncle like that. I was quite amazed. An uncle with whom she has lived for so many years and who, whatever his mistakes may be, loves her brother so much and, as they say, treats him like a son. I couldn't have believed it!"
"I thought you were going to be beaten
