CHAPTER X.HE COMES TO "THE WAKING OF THE FIRE".
A few days afterwards Gaston joined a small party at Peppingham.

Without any accent life was made easy for him.

He was alone much, and yet, to himself, he seemed to have enough of company.
The situation did not impose itself conspicuously.

Delia gave him no especial reason to be vain.

She had not an exceeding wit, but she had charm, and her talk was interesting to Gaston, who had come, for the first time, into somewhat intimate relations with an English girl.