I on my side had grown quicker.

I began in a word to see.

For the first time in my life I began to see." Mrs.Adair did not move.

Durrance, upon his side, appeared to expect no answer or acknowledgment.

He spoke with the voice of enjoyment which a man uses recounting difficulties which have ceased to hamper him, perplexities which have been long since unravelled.
"I should have definitely broken off our engagement, I suppose, at once.
For I still believed, and as firmly as ever, that there must be more than friendship on both sides.