human
I did hope that she would have married your father, she said.
gpt
But I never felt quite so sure about it as Mary, and others, have. I think she could never quite make up her mind. Sir John Ambleside has been rather determined in his wooing, and I suppose it came to a point where George held back, not liking to put himself into rivalry with a much younger man.
human
I think that's much the most likely thing to have happened, said Caroline.
gpt
But he did love her, I'm pretty sure, and I'm most awfully sorry for him.
human
So am I, said Lady Handsworth.
gpt
But he will get over it, perhaps sooner than one might think. A man of his age never lets himself quite go, unless he's absolutely sure. He knows, for one thing, that life isn't all made up of love, and if he has had a blow he can look forward to the time when he will have left off feeling it. Besides, your father hasn't lost the love that he has always had, and that has been enough for him hitherto.