Once married, he would give up raving about Flower and Myra, and kissing people's hands in that--"absurd way," Jane was going to say, but she was invariably truthful, even in her thoughts, and substituted "extraordinary" as the more correct adjective--in that extraordinary way.
She sat forward in her chair with her elbows on her knees, and held her large hands before her, palms upward, realising again the sensations of that moment.

Then she pulled herself up sharply.

"Jane Champion, don't be a fool! You would wrong that dear, beauty-loving boy, more than you would wrong yourself, if you took him for one moment seriously.

His homage to-night was no more personal to you than his appreciation of the excellent dinner was personal to Aunt Georgina's chef.

In his enjoyment of the production, the producer was included; but that was all.