Let her but trust herself to him, and she should try her social experiments as she pleased--she should plan Utopias, and he would be her hodman to build them.

The man perplexed with too much thinking remembered the girl's innocent, ignorant readiness to stamp the world's stuff anew after the forms of her own pitying thought, with a positive thirst of sympathy.

The deep poetry and ideality at the root of him under all the weight of intellectual and critical debate leapt towards her.

He thought of the rapid talk she had poured out upon him, after their compact of friendship, in their walk back to the church, of her enthusiasm for her Socialist friends and their ideals,--with a momentary madness of self-suppression and tender humility.

In reality, a man like Aldous Raeburn is born to be the judge and touchstone of natures like Marcella Boyce.