But when it is the voice of a woman and the hand of a child that is missed, you can back no speculation upon that man's mood or mind or conduct.

There is no influence like the influence of habit, and that is how, when the minds of people are at one, physical distances and differences, no matter how great, are invisible, or at least not obvious.
Richard Armour was a sensible man; but when one morning he suddenly packed a portmanteau and went up to town to Cavendish Square, the act might be considered from two sides of the equation.

If he came back to enter again into the social life which, for so many years, he had abjured, it was not very sensible, because the world never welcomes its deserters; it might, if men and women grew younger instead of older.

If he came to see his family, or because he hungered for his godchild, or because--but we are hurrying the situation.

It were wiser not to state the problem yet.