He realized her as he painted her, and the realization visited him less often, much less often, than before.
Even the fact that she knew what he thought gradually became an agreeable one.

There would be room for no hypocrisies between them.

He wished that Janet Cardiff could have some such experience.

It was provoking that she should be still so loyally _avengle_; that he would not be able to discuss Elfrida with her, when he went back to London, from an impersonal point of view.

He had a strong desire to say precisely what he thought of her friend to Janet, in which there was an obscure recognition of a duty of reparation--obscure because he had no overt disloyalty to Janet to charge himself with, but none the less present.