The relation is too special and has gone too far.

It's the very basis, and his recent lively contribution toward establishing Jeanne in life has been his definite and final acknowledgement to Madame de Vionnet that he has ceased squirming.

I doubt meanwhile," he went on, "if Sarah has at all directly attacked him." His companion brooded.

"But won't he wish for his own satisfaction to make his ground good to her ?" "No--he'll leave it to me, he'll leave everything to me.

I 'sort of' feel"-- he worked it out--"that the whole thing will come upon me.