At the same time the relations between the contributors and the management were to be much more, intimate than usual.

Fulkerson felt his personal disqualification for working the thing socially, and he counted upon Mr.March for that; that was to say, he counted upon Mrs.March.
She protested he must not count upon her; but it by no means disabled Fulkerson's judgment in her view that March really seemed more than anything else a fancy of his.

He had been a fancy of hers; and the sort of affectionate respect with which Fulkerson spoke of him laid forever some doubt she had of the fineness of Fulkerson's manners and reconciled her to the graphic slanginess of his speech.
The affair was now irretrievable, but she gave her approval to it as superbly as if it were submitted in its inception.

Only, Mr.Fulkerson must not suppose she should ever like New York.

She would not deceive him on that point.