There rose in him a sharp sense of the unfathomed depths and possibilities in such a nature as Diana's.

Once or twice that evening, through all her sweet forthcomingness, when he had forced the note a little, she had looked at him in sudden surprise or shrinking.
No!--nothing premature! It seemed to him, as it had seemed to Bobbie Forbes, that she could only be won by the slow and gradual conquest of a rich personality.

He set himself to the task.
* * * * * Down-stairs Mr.Ferrier and Sir James Chide were sitting together in a remote corner of the hall.

Mr.Ferrier, in great good-humor with the state of things, was discussing Oliver's chances, confidentially, with his old friend.

Sir James sat smoking in silence.