More wholesomely and more rarely at the plastic age characteristics strengthen and mind and body both gather virile capacity.

When John Penhallow met his cousin on his first arrival, he was in enterprise, vigour, general good sense and normal relation to life, really far younger than Leila.

In knowledge, mind and imagination, he was far in advance.

In these months he had passed her in the race of life.

He felt it, but in many ways was also dimly aware that Leila was less expressively free in word and action, sometimes to his surprise liking to be alone at the age when rare moods of mild melancholy trouble the time of rapid female florescence.