86/90 So he went on through the winter; but he seemed not so fretted. His mother was easier about him. She thought he was getting away from Miriam. His feeling for Mrs.Dawes--who, moreover, was a married woman--was shallow and temporal, compared with his love for herself. He would come back to her, she was sure; with some of his young freshness gone, perhaps, but cured of his desire for the lesser things which other women than herself could give him. |