She grasped exactly what he would say, and made him say things he would never have thought of saying to any one else.

She drew him out, made the most of him, made him think.

Other women only tried to make him feel.

If he had had a girl like this beside him during the last ten years, how many wasted hours would have been saved, how many bottles of champagne would not have been opened, how many wild nights would have been spent differently! Too good, too fine for him--yes, a hundred times, but he would try to make it up to her, if such a girl as this could endure him.

He was not handsome, he was not clever, so he said to himself, but he had a little power.