I'm acting with a sense for him of other things too.
Consideration and comfort and security--the general safety of being anchored by a strong chain.

He wants, as I see him, to be protected.
Protected I mean from life." "Ah voila!"-- her thought fitted with a click.

"From life.

What you REALLY want to get him home for is to marry him." "Well, that's about the size of it." "Of course," she said, "it's rudimentary.

But to any one in particular ?" He smiled at this, looking a little more conscious.