She would have preferred not to think of Otway at all, but often did so, and could not help it.

A certain reproach of conscience connected itself with his name.

But as time went on, and it appeared that the young man was settled to his mercantile career in Russia, she succeeded in dismissing him from her mind.
For the next three years she lived with her father in London; a life pretty evenly divided between studies and the amusements of her world.
Dr.Derwent pursued his quiet activity.

In a certain sphere he had reputation; the world at large knew little or nothing of him.

All he aimed at was the diminution of human suffering; whether men thanked him for his life's labour did not seem to him a point worth considering.