The breaking up of the home meant the end of many precious and gentle things, and without them he knew that his life would be the poorer.

And he vowed once more, to himself, that he would never prove disloyal to Jane.
While he remained in London he saw what he could of her, sacrificing many a Sunday's outing with the theatre folk.

Jane, instinctively aware of this, and finding in his demeanour, after examining it with femininely jealous, microscopic eyes, nothing perfunctory, was duly grateful, and gave him of her girlish best.

She developed very quickly after her entrance into the world of struggle.

Very soon it was the woman and not the child who listened to the marvellous youth's story of the wonders that would be.