"I have no right to say it, perhaps.

But I think you are wise." "Things are possible here," she agreed, "which are impossible there." "Friendship, for instance." "Some friendships," said Mrs.Oliver; and the rest of their supper they ate cheerily enough.

Violet Oliver was genuinely interested in her partner.

She was not very familiar with the large view and the definite purpose.

Those who gathered within her tiny drawing-room, who sought her out at balls and parties, were, as a rule, the younger men of the day, and Linforth, though like them in age and like them, too, in his capacity for enjoyment, was different in most other ways.