Rowland now made it a rule to treat him like a perfectly sane man, to assume that all things were well with him, and never to allude to the prosperity he had forfeited or to the work he was not doing.

He would have still said, had you questioned him, that Roderick's condition was a mood--certainly a puzzling one.

It might last yet for many a weary hour; but it was a long lane that had no turning.

Roderick's blues would not last forever.

Rowland's interest in Miss Garland's relations with her cousin was still profoundly attentive, and perplexed as he was on all sides, he found nothing transparent here.