He is very brilliant and very gifted--" "Your 'but' must be very bad," she threw in, "it is so long in coming." "Then I will say, whatever opening it gives you," he replied with spirit, "that I admire him without respecting him." "Who ever thought otherwise of a clever opponent ?" she cried.

"It is the stock formula." The remark stung, all the more because Aldous was perfectly conscious that there was much truth in her implied charge of prejudice.

He had never been very capable of seeing this particular man in the dry light of reason, and was certainly less so than before, since it had been revealed to him that Wharton and Mr.Boyce's daughter were to be brought, before long, into close neighbourhood.
"I am sorry that I seem to you such a Pharisee," he said, turning upon her a look which had both pain and excitement in it.
She was silent, and they walked on a few yards without speaking.

The wood had thickened around them: The high road was no longer visible.

No sound of wheels or footsteps reached them.