This was now two years since, and he had found in his old playmate a beautiful young woman, in his opinion very unlike the people with whom she lived.

For the first twelvemonths he saw her occasionally,--though not indeed very often.
Once or twice he had drunk tea at the attorney's house, on which occasions the drawing-room upstairs had been almost as grand as it was uncomfortable.

Then the attentions of Larry Twentyman began to make themselves visible, infinitely to Reginald Morton's disgust.

Up to that time he had no idea of falling in love with the girl himself.
Since he had begun to think on such subjects at all he had made up his mind that he would not marry.

He was almost the more proud of his birth by his father's side, because he had been made to hear so much of his mother's low position.