Aurora had more than once said in the preceding years that she did not like his eyes and a certain way he had of looking at her.

He had admired her, even then, and now that he was a widower it was not at all unlikely that he should think of marrying her.
He was not much more than thirty years old, and he had a singularly youthful face.

There was no objection on the score of his age.

He was rich, at least for his life-time.

He had always been called a model husband while his wife had been alive, and was said to have behaved with propriety since.