The wild life in him responded.
These were hours when the girl was quite naive and natural, when she spent herself in ripe enjoyment--almost child-like, healthy.

At other times there was an indefinable something which Gaston had not noticed in England.

But then he had only seen her once.

She, too, saw something in him unnoticed before.

It was on his tongue a hundred times to tell her that that something was Delia Gasgoyne.