It amused him to see himself going to church--_to church_--to hear himself conversing on flowers and music with a young English girl.

The idea that he was rapidly falling in love was specially delightful.

He called himself a _vieux scelerat_, and watched the progress of feelings which he felt did him credit with extreme satisfaction.

He and Ruth arrived at the church porch all too soon for Dare; and though he had the pleasure of sitting on one side of her during the service, he would have preferred that Charles, of whom he felt a vague distrust, had not happened to be on the other..