That remembered and talked of her still in its dumb way; and as he realised this, his mood once more changed.

He forgot his aspirations toward a broader world, and felt that, not only would it be a sort of unfaithfulness to leave Zion Place, but that to do so, and to break up this familiar harmony of home, this little cosmos of friendly furniture in accustomed relations,--pictures hung so from time immemorial, rooms dedicated to this use and no other,--would be to destroy the one mirror from which could come to him still glimpses of Jenny's living face.

In just that look of the rooms was the best portrait he possessed of Jenny.
Though he had always been fond of Mr.Moggridge, it had not before occurred to Theophil to make of him a companion; but about this time, as Mr.Moggridge would drop in of an evening to discuss church matters, the young minister would be surprised to note how lonely he felt when he had gone.

Indeed Mr.Moggridge possessed that great undefinable gift of companionability.
What is needed in a companion is not brilliance of conversation, but the power to make you feel that you are not quite alone in the universe.
Dogs and even children possess this quality for some happily constituted individuals, but for others it is a necessity that the companion be a human being.
A human being, the quieter the better, if possible a rather large man, diffusing a sense of warmth and safety, with perhaps no other gifts than kindliness and a pipe; and sometimes you have the best of company.

And Mr.Moggridge, as we know, had brains too, and interesting instincts for new things.