Why had Eileen felt that she would envy any woman who shared life with Peter Morrison?
All that day she had annoyed him, because there must have been in the very deeps of his soul "a still, small voice" whispering to him that he had not lived up to the best traditions of a gentleman in his course with Marian.

While no definite plans had been made, there had been endless assumption.

Many times they had talked of the home they would make together.

When he reached the point where he decided that he never had loved Marian as a man should love the woman he marries, he felt justified in turning to Eileen, but in his heart he knew that if he had been the man he was pleased to consider himself, he would have gone to Marian Thorne and explained, thereby keeping her friendship, while he now knew that he must have earned her contempt.
The day at Riverside had been an enigma he could not solve.

Eileen was gay to a degree that was almost boisterous.