Mr.Bradshaw resumed his interest in antiquities, but did not speak so freely about them as before.
"Your brother knows a good deal more about these things than I do, Mrs.
Baske," he remarked.

"He shall give us the benefit of his Latin." Miriam resolutely kept her eyes alike from Reuben and from Cecily.
Hitherto her attention to the ruins had been intermittent, but occasionally she had forgotten herself so far as to look and ponder; now she saw nothing.

Her mind was gravely troubled; she wished only that the day were over.
As for Elgar, he seemed to the Bradshaws singularly quiet, modest, inoffensive.

If he ventured a suggestion or a remark, it was in a subdued voice and with the most pleasant manner possible.

He walked for a time with Mrs.Bradshaw, and accommodated himself with much tact to her way of regarding foreign things, whether ancient or modern.