He extracted from her at any rate an intimation that she should now have means less limited, that her aunt's tiny fortune had come to her, so that there was henceforth only one to consume what had formerly been made to suffice for two.

This was a joy to Stransom, because it had hitherto been equally impossible for him either to offer her presents or contentedly to stay his hand.

It was too ugly to be at her side that way, abounding himself and yet not able to overflow--a demonstration that would have been signally a false note.

Even her better situation too seemed only to draw out in a sense the loneliness of her future.

It would merely help her to live more and more for their small ceremonial, and this at a time when he himself had begun wearily to feel that, having set it in motion, he might depart.