We may believe--and surely many harder demands are made upon our faith--that there did arise a very special relationship between these two.

The whole of Angelina's heart was now devoted to Rose's service, Rose's was not devoted to Angelina ?...

And always Angelina wondered when her friend would return, watched for him in the dusk, awoke in the early mornings and listened for him, searched the Square with its trees and its fountain for his presence.
"Wosie, when did he say he'd come next ?" But Rose could not tell.

There _were_ times when Rose's impenetrability was, to put it at its mildest, aggravating.
Meanwhile, the situation with Aunt Emily grew serious.

Angelina was aware that Aunt Emily disliked Rose, and her mouth now shut very tightly and her eyes glared defiance when she thought of this, but her difference with her aunt went more deeply than this.