Henceforward she will regard me only with good-humoured tolerance; I shall be to her but a non-felonious Timkins.
I was an idiot to have kissed her in return.
I have not seen her since.

I lunched at the club, and paid a formal call on Mrs.Ralph Ordeyne and my cousin Rosalie, in their sunless house in Kensington.
I met a singular lack of welcome.

Rosalie gave me a limper hand than usual, and took an early opportunity of leaving me tete-a-tete with her mother, who conversed frigidly about the warm weather.

The very tea, if possible, was colder.
I met Judith by appointment in Kensington Gardens, and walked with her homewards.

I mentioned my chilly reception.
"My dear man," she observed--I dislike this apostrophe, which Judith always uses by way of introduction to an unpleasant remark--"My dear man, I have no doubt that you have as unsavoury a reputation as any one in London.