It's as a convenience simply to my own plan FOR him." "'Simply'!"-- and little Bilham's concurrence was in itself a lively comment.

"Thank you.

But I thought," he continued, "you had exactly NO plan 'for' him." "Well then call it my plan for myself--which may be well, as you say, to have none.

His situation, don't you see?
is reduced now to the bare facts one has to recognise.

Mamie doesn't want him, and he doesn't want Mamie: so much as that these days have made clear.