This was only a barrier that left the relation itself untouched.
Before very long she began to think the situation was all in her own imagination.

He was so amused, so eager to talk.

Silent as he was apt to be with the rest of the world, with her he sometimes showed a love of gossip that enchanted her.

And now it seemed to her that he was leading her on from subject to subject through a childish dislike to going to bed.

They were actually giggling over Mr.Lanley's adventure when a motor-brake squeaked in the silence of the night, a motor-door slammed.
For the first time Adelaide remembered her daughter.