It was a relief to him to find how smoothly he and Deborah dropped back into their old relations.

It was good to get home those evenings; for in this new stage of its existence, with its family of two, the house appeared to have filled itself with a deep reposeful feeling.

Laura had gone out of its life.

He glanced into her room one night, and it looked like a guest room now.

The sight of it brought him a pang of regret.