He means it.

It is a kind action and he'll like doing it, I'm sure.

That's all right, Doctor; she accepts, don't you, chick ?" "Yes, if you say so, I do; and most thankfully." She accompanied the acceptance with a gracious smile that was in itself a large payment on account, and when we had made the necessary arrangements, I hurried away in a state of the most perfect satisfaction to finish my morning's work and order an early lunch.
When I called for her a couple of hours later I found her waiting in the garden with the shabby handbag, of which I relieved her, and we set forth together, watched jealously by Miss Oman, who had accompanied her to the gate.
As I walked up the court with this wonderful maid by my side I could hardly believe in my good fortune.

By her presence and my own resulting happiness the mean surroundings became glorified and the commonest objects transfigured into things of beauty.

What a delightful thoroughfare, for instance, was Fetter Lane, with its quaint charm and mediaeval grace! I snuffed the cabbage-laden atmosphere and seemed to breathe the scent of the asphodel.