The three became excellent friends.

Naturally, the young people spent a good deal of time together.

But there had been no love-making--not a hint or whisper of it! And now, by cruel chance, their names were linked by scandal in its most menacing form, since there was no gainsaying the fact that Doris's star-gazing on that fatal Monday night was indissolubly bound up with the death of Adelaide Melhuish.
For the first time, then, the notion peeped up in Grant's mind that the whirligig of existence might see Doris his wife.

But the conceit resembled the Gorgon's teeth, which, when sown in the ground, sprang forth as armed men.

The very accident which revealed a not unpleasing possibility had established a grave obstacle in the way of its ultimate realization.