Can you tell me when she is likely to be at home ?" "Certainly between two and three, if you could come then." He waited a little, then looked unexpectedly at Miriam.

Again her eyes were fixed on him, and again they fell with something of consciousness.
Did _she_, perchance, understand him?
His speculations concerning Cecily became comparative.

In point of age, the distance between Cecily and Miriam was of some importance; the fact that the elder had been a married woman was of still more account.

On the first day of his meeting with Mrs.Baske, he had thought a good deal about her; since then she had slipped from his mind, but now he felt his interest reviving.

Surely she was as remote from him as a woman well could be, yet his attitude towards her had no character of intolerance; he half wished that he could form a closer acquaintance with her.