text:  So little was she aware of her father's testamentary dispositions in her favour that the interested nature of Lord Robert's views did not occur to her mind; and little accustomed to protestations of attachment Selina's heart was not _very_ difficult to soften towards the only man who had ever pretended to love her and whose apparent attachment promised some consolation for the loss of her sister's society as well as the chance of reunion with one whom her father had sworn should never under any possible circumstances again cross his threshold