They're not free--at least she's not; but they take what's left to them.

It's a friendship, of a beautiful sort; and that's what makes them so strong.

They're straight, they feel; and they keep each other up.

It's doubtless she, however, who, as you yourself have hinted, feels it most." Little Bilham appeared to wonder what he had hinted.

"Feels most that they're straight ?" "Well, feels that SHE is, and the strength that comes from it.