Hallin moved on beside her, evidently glad of the opportunity of a talk with her.
"We are all going together to the Gairsley meeting next week, aren't we?
I am so glad you are coming.

Aldous will do his best." There was something very winning in his tone to her.

It implied both his old and peculiar friendship for Aldous, and his eager wish to find a new friend in her--to adopt her into their comradeship.

Something very winning, too, in his whole personality--in the loosely knit, nervous figure, the irregular charm of feature, the benignant eyes and brow--even in the suggestions of physical delicacy, cheerfully concealed, yet none the less evident.

The whole balance of Marcella's temper changed in some sort as she talked to him.