Meanwhile, amid all jars and frets, remember this, that I have loved you better each day since first we met.
"I will not come to Mellor then for a little while.

My election, little heart as I have for it, will fill up the week.

The nomination-day is fixed for Thursday and the polling for Monday." Marcella read the letter with a confusion of feeling so great as to be in itself monstrous and demoralising.

Was she never to be simple, to see her way clearly again?
As for him, as he rode about the lanes and beechwoods in the days that followed, alone often with that nature for which all such temperaments as Aldous Raeburn's have so secret and so observant an affection, he was perpetually occupied with this difficulty which had arisen between Marcella and himself, turning it over and over in the quiet of the morning, before the turmoil of the day began.
He had followed the whole case before the magistrates with the most scrupulous care.

And since then, he had twice run across the Widrington solicitor for the defence, who was now instructing Wharton.