But he admires what I like.

His position hampers him--but I could help him to get beyond it.
We might show the way to many!" "Will you come and see this room here ?" he said, stopping suddenly, yet with a certain hesitation in the voice.

"It is my own sitting-room.
There are one or two portraits I should like to show you if you would let me." She followed him with a rosy cheek, and they were presently standing in front of the portrait of his mother.

He spoke of his recollections of his parents, quietly and simply, yet she felt through every nerve that he was not the man to speak of such things to anybody in whom he did not feel a very strong and peculiar interest.

As he was talking a rush of liking towards him came across her.