John Oliver Hobbes

“ Grace began to bristle at once. [8] "Godfrey never raves about any one," she said, "but if he admires either of the Heathcote girls, it is Agatha, the eldest. He always says that she has the most regular features. [9] I don't suppose he ever saw much of the other, for she must have been practically engaged to young Cargill the summer Godfrey was at Little Speenham."
"I see," said Lady Hemingway. She could not resist adding, however, "Clergymen's daughters are always so sly. You never know what they're up to. They usually catch the richest men in the parish." ”

“ Until she met him, she had bowed in humiliation and self-pity to her mother's dictum—"Grace was cut out to be a companion to an elderly lady, in exchange for a comfortable home—the sort of thing one reads in the Morning Post. She will never make a good marriage." He had given wings to a clay bird: as much gratitude as one could expect from clay, she gave in return.
"Yes," she repeated, "Godfrey has fine qualities. But I wish—though, of course, no one is perfect—he would not give way to his moods. It is very difficult sometimes to please him. He doesn't find fault, you know ”

“ And he only came into the title a month ago." [4]
"Nice young fellow—inclined to be stout—twelve thousand a year, at least," [5] said the Captain, rapidly. "Belonged to my club—rarely dined there—dined deuced well when he did. Knew him quite well—very civil. [6] Quite cut up to hear of his death. [7] Only seven-and-twenty. Shocking!"
"I just mentioned him," said Lady Hemingway, "because I thought that Godfrey was friendly with the Cargills at one time. ”

“ This reference to daffodils is part of a longstanding tradition of attaching symbolic meaning to flowers and flower arrangement, known as language of flowers or floriography. Floriography surged in popularity in Victorian England. ”