"It has been very pleasant to meet you," she said.
"Mayn't I at least see you down ?" he asked.

"How do you go ?" "There's really no need to trouble you," she answered, "I shall go a part of the way in the stage." She went out, and as he followed her down the staircase he asked himself again the puzzling question: "She is different from other women--but how is she different ?" And still he assured himself with confidence that what he liked in her was her serene separateness from the appeal of passion.

"This is the thing that lasts--that really lasts for a lifetime," he said in his thoughts..