Iris looks steadily in his face, and then he will turn as if magnetized and meet the amber eyes with his own melancholy gaze.

I do believe that they have some kind of understanding together, that they meet elsewhere than at our table, and that there is a mystery, which is going to break upon us all of a sudden, involving the relations of these two persons.

From the very first, they have taken to each other.

The one thing they have in common is the heroic will.

In him, it shows itself in thinking his way straightforward, in doing battle for "free trade and no right of search" on the high seas of religious controversy, and especially in fighting the battles of his crooked old city.