He gave not the smallest direct sign; he began at once to talk of other things in a quite other vein.

But underlying his characteristic whims and sallies she was presently conscious of a new and exquisite gentleness.

It seemed to address itself both to her physical fatigue, and to the painful impression of the incident which had just passed.

Her sudden tears--the tears of a tired child--and his delicate feeling--there arose out of them, as out of their whole journey, a relation, a bond, of which both were conscious, to which she yielded herself in a kind of vague and timid pleasure.
For Manisty--as she sat there, high above him, yet leaning a little towards him--there was something in the general freshness and purity of her presence, both physical and moral, that began most singularly to steal upon his emotions.

Certain barriers seemed to be falling, certain secret sympathies emerging, drawn from regions far below their differences of age and race, of national and intellectual habit.