Kesiah had taught her much; but from Gay, with his abundant kindliness, his self-possession, his good clothes, she had learned incomparably more.

Kesiah had shown her the external differences in "things," while Gay had opened her eyes to the external differences that might count in men.

Until she knew Gay she had believed that the cultivation of one's appearance was a matter that concerned women alone.

Now, when moved by some unfortunate impulse of respect for her mourning, Abel showed himself before her in his Sunday clothes, she was conscious of a shock which she would never have felt in the old days in the overseer's cottage.

In his working dress, with his fine throat bared by his blue shirt, there was a splendid vitality about her lover beside which Jonathan appeared flabby and over-weighted with flesh.