Two days--Monday, Tuesday--and in that brief time the whole face of the future had changed for him.

On Sunday evening he had sat thinking over his future relations with Grail and Thyrza.

The fact that he consciously brought himself to reflect upon the subject of course proved that it involved certain doubts and difficulties for him, but in half an hour he believed that he had put his mind in order.

Thyrza interested him--why not say it out, as he was bent on understanding himself?
She interested him more vitally than any girl he had ever known.

Very possibly he saw her in the light of illusion; should his opportunities grant him a completer knowledge of her, he might not improbably discover that after all she was but a pretty girl of the people, attractive in a great measure owing to her very deficiencies.
He would very likely come to laugh at himself for having thought that her value was above that of Annabel Newthorpe.