But the perception only roused in himself some slumbering tenacities and vehemences of which he had been scarcely aware.

So that, almost immediately--since there was no glamour of passion on his side--he began to resent her small tyrannies, to draw in, and draw back.

A few quarrels--not ordinary lovers' quarrels, but representing a true grapple of personalities--sprang up behind a screen of trifles.

Daphne was once more rude and provoking, Roger cool and apparently indifferent.

This was the stage when Mrs.Verrier had become an admiring observer of what she supposed to be his "tactics." But she knew nothing of the curious little crisis which had preceded them.
Then the Maddisons, mother and daughter, "my tutor's friends," had appeared upon the scene--charming people! Of course civilities were due to them, and had to be paid them.