For it seemed to him that success or failure in this honeymooning hung upon the success or failure of Craig in practising the precepts that for Grant and his kind take precedence of the moral code.

He spent an earnest and exhausting hour in neatly and carefully writing out the instructions, as Craig had requested.

He performed this service with a gravity that would move some people to the same sort of laughter and wonder that is excited by the human doings of a trained chimpanzee.

But Craig--the wild man, the arch foe of effeteness, the apostle of the simple life of yarn sock and tallowed boot and homespun pants and hairy jaw--Craig accepted the service with heartfelt thanks in his shaking voice and moist eye.
Thus the opening of the honeymoon was most auspicious.

Craig, too much in awe of Margaret to bother her, and busy about matters that concerned himself alone, was a model of caution, restraint and civility.