She did not go much to parties, and was not in my set.

She affected art and lectures, and excursions to mountains, and campings-out, and unconventionalities, and no doubt had a good time in her way.

But it was not my way: and so we seldom met.

When we did, she did not show much more respect for me than of old, which always had the effect of making me feel angry.
And as for Richard, we could not have been much further apart, if he had lived "in England and I at Rotterdam." For a year, while he was settling up the estate, he was closely in the city.

I did not see him more than once or twice, all business being transacted through his lawyer, and the clerk of whom he had spoken to me.