Indeed they became inseparable, at any rate in mind.

A strange and most uncommon intimacy existed between these young creatures, almost might it have been called a friendship of the spirit.

Yet, and this was the curious part of it, they were dissimilar in almost everything that goes to make up a human being.

Even in childhood there was scarcely a subject on which they thought alike, scarcely a point upon which they would not argue.
Godfrey was fond of poetry; it bored Isobel.

His tendencies were towards religion though of a very different type from that preached and practised by his father; hers were anti-religious.