If not the spirit of love, it was really the passion of the man.

Her tremors now and again in the reading of his later letters humiliated her, in the knowledge that they came of no response to him, but from the temporary base acquiescence; which is, with women, a terrible perception of the gulf of their unsatisfied nature.
The secretary, cheerful at his work, was found for just the opening of a door.

Sometimes she hesitated--to disturb him, she said to herself,--and went up-stairs or out visiting.

He protested that he could work on and talk too.

She was able to amuse her lord with some of his ideas.