This was the mesmeric effect of those reproachful eyes fixed steadily upon him.

And in the doorway, like some figure in a nightmare--a figure incongruous and out of place--the Man in Possession sitting, passive and unconcerned, with one eye on the street and the other on the shop.
Upstairs Mr.Emblem was sitting fast asleep; joy had made him sleepy; and Iris was at work among her pupils' letters, compiling sums for the Fruiterer, making a paper on Conic Sections for the Cambridge man, and working out Trigonometrical Equations for the young schoolmaster, and her mind full of a solemn exultation and glory, for she was a woman who was loved.

The other things troubled her but little.

Her grandfather would get back his equilibrium of mind; the shop might be shut up, but that mattered little.

Arnold, and Lala Roy, and her grandfather, and herself, would all live together, and she and Arnold would work.