Harriet must have changed so much since those days.
Possibly there would never be a mention between them of the old trouble; practically they would be new acquaintances, and would be very little helped to an understanding of each other by the recollections of childhood.

And then Ida felt there was so much to be glad of in the new prospects.

She longed for a world more substantial than that of her own imaginations, and here, as she thought, it would be opened to her.
Above all, by introducing her to his friends, Waymark had strengthened the relations between her and himself.

He was giving her, too, a chance of showing herself to him in a new light.

For the first time he would see her under the ordinary conditions of a woman's life in a home circle Ida had passed from one extreme to the other.