Between woman and woman it's different, and it's, of course, different too between man and woman.

But perhaps that's best to be understood by means of its symbol,' and he worked up to his climax of cold boiled mutton with complete satisfaction.
'I gather, then, that you see nothing of Mrs.Willoughby now,' said Clarice quietly as soon as he had stopped.

Fielding was for the moment taken aback.

It seemed to him that the point of view was unfair.
'Widows,' he replied with great sententiousness,--'widows are different,' and he took his leave without explaining wherein the difference lay.

He wondered, however, if Clarice's point of view had occurred to Mrs.
Willoughby.
Fielding's visit, and in particular his teasing reticence as to his stay in Matanga, had the effect of recalling Clarice's thoughts to the subject of Stephen Drake.