He soon observed, however, that she led the way promptly from delicate ground.

This might result from maidenly reserve or from the fact that she was not quite ready for decisive words.

He still believed that he had all needed encouragement--that the expression of her eyes often answered his, and he knew well what his meant.

When, in response to his invitation, she promised to drive with him in the afternoon, all seemed to be going as he wished.
Graydon felt that during dinner and thereafter for a time he should be devoted to his party, to preclude criticism on his course in the late afternoon and in the evening, when he proposed to seek society which promised more than theirs.

He began to discover that, except as her intelligence was larger, in one respect Madge had not changed from her old self.