She could always talk of Tommy to Corp.
How loyal Corp was! He still referred to Tommy as "him." Gavinia, much distressed, read aloud to Corp a newspaper attack on the political article, and all he said was, "He'll find a wy." "He's found it," he went upstairs to announce to Grizel, when the praises of the "little masterpiece" arrived.
"Yes, I know, Corp," she answered quietly.

She was sitting by the window where the plant was.

Tommy had asked her to take care of it, without telling her why.
Something in her appearance troubled the hulking, blundering man.

He could not have told what it was.

I think it was simply this--that Grizel no longer sat erect in her chair.
"I'm nain easy in my mind about Grizel," he said that evening to Gavinia.