I believe he would give me a decent character, though I tease him a good deal.

You must let me tell you sometime what he did for me--what he was to me--at Cambridge?
I shall always feel sorry for Aldous's wife that she did not know him at college." A shock went through Marcella at the word--that tremendous word--wife.
As Hallin said it, there was something intolerable in the claim it made! "I should like you to tell me," she said faintly.

Then she added, with more energy and a sudden advance of friendliness, "But you really must come in and rest.

Aldous told me he thought the walk from the Court was too much for you.

Shall we take this short way ?" And she opened a little gate leading to a door at the side of the house through the Cedar Garden.