"Why? Can you assign any reason?"
"None that will fully explain my feelings. The fact is, I cannot myself account for the antipathy with which he inspires me. It seems almost instinctive. Without knowing anything against him I feel convinced that he is a bad and dangerous man."
"This is silly, Grace."
"It may be so, but I can't help it."
"You do not object to my inviting him to your party?"
"No. I have no right to do that, or rather I do not wish to; since it would be a gratuitous slight. He must come, of course, though I would rather he were away."
"That is all, then, unless any other name occurs to you."
"There is one other name, Aunt Caroline," said Grace, hesitatingly.
"Well?"
"Mr. Vernon."