Health, Marsham supposed, or finance--the two chief motives of life.

For himself, the thought of Diana's childhood between the pine woods and the sea gave him pleasure; it added another to the poetical and romantic ideas which she suggested.

There came back on him the plash of the waves beneath the Portofino headland, the murmur of the pines, the fragrance of the underwood.

He felt the kindred between all these, and her maidenly energy, her unspoiled beauty.
"One moment!" he said, as they began to cross the lawn.

"Has my sister attacked you yet ?" The smile with which the words were spoken could be heard though not seen.