He does all that kind of thing.

And if in your good works you want any help we can give, ask it, my dear young lady.

My old comrade's grand-daughter will always find friends in this house." Lord Maxwell would have been very much astonished to hear himself making this speech six weeks before.

As it was, he handed her over gallantly to Aldous, and stood on the steps looking after them in a stir of mind not unnoted by the confidential butler who held the door open behind him.
Would Aldous insist on carrying his wife off to the dower house on the other side of the estate?
or would they be content to stay in the old place with the old people?
And if so, how were that girl and his sister to get on?
As for himself, he was of a naturally optimist temper, and ever since the night of his first interview with Aldous on the subject, he had been more and more inclining to take a cheerful view.

He liked to see a young creature of such evident character and cleverness holding opinions and lines of her own.