It amounted almost to awe.

Their connection was consequently a partnership rather than anything else,--a partnership based on physical affinities, on mutual interest, and on habit.

Of the higher sort of sympathy there was no trace.

Neither had room for it among the many occupations which their mode of life and manner of intercourse called forth.
If Tyope was shrewd and cunning, and if he made of his own woman his eye, ear, and mouth, as has been said in one of the previous chapters, Hannay was not a fool.

She did not of course understand anything of his plans and schemes, and he never thought it necessary to inform her; but she knew how to manage him whenever anything aroused her curiosity.