"He will probably find his companions among the great English scholars," she thought complacently.

Of course she would always be his only comrade, his chum.

She continually met and parted with thousands of people--they came and went.

"But George and I will be together for all time," she told herself.
He came up presently and sat down beside her, with an anxious, apologetic air.

It hurt him to think that he had laughed at her.
"That dark haze is the Jersey shore," he said.