The thing that most moved him was really that she was so deeply serious.

She had none of the portentous forms of it, but he had never come in contact, it struck him, with a force brought to so fine a head.

Mrs.Newsome, goodness knew, was serious; but it was nothing to this.

He took it all in, he saw it all together.

"No," he mused, "I can't in honour not see him." Her face affected him as with an exquisite light.