And suppose my influence--such as it is--was withdrawn?
Suppose that I were to die, or, what appears to be more likely, suppose that he should marry ?" "Then let us hope that he will marry the right person.

People sometimes do, you know." She smiled with a strange little flicker of the eyelids.

They had grown wonderfully accustomed to each other during the last three weeks.

Here, it would appear, was one of those friendships between man and woman that occasionally set the world agog with curiosity and scepticism.

But there seemed to be no doubt about it.