She was just enough to acknowledge that these were even more than she could naturally expect from him--that the majority of young men would have treated her with a half contemptuous pity which she was now beginning to admit would be partially deserved.

On the occasions when she had gone out with him she had learned how unattractive in society her pale face and shy ways were.

Such attentions as she had received had been to her sensitive spirit like charity.

Graydon had been animated by unaffected good-will and an affection that was, after its kind, genuine.

While she felt that it would be no longer possible to receive these mild manifestations of regard while giving something so different, she still knew, with a half despairing sinking of heart, how blank and desolate her life would be without them.