I feel it very much that she is living apart from me in this city where we are both strangers.

I am anxious about her, Mr.Tavernake.
Does she want money?
If so, will you take her some from me?
Can't you suggest any way in which I could help her?
Do be my friend, please, and advise me." Life was certainly opening out for Tavernake.

The atmosphere by which he was surrounded, which she was deliberately creating around him, was the atmosphere of an unknown world.

It was a position, this, entirely novel to him.

Nevertheless, he did his best to cope with it intelligently.