Anyway, I don't complain of the opinion of gentlemen who knew more about me." Millicent saw that the subject must be dropped.
"At our first meeting," she said, "I had no opportunity for thanking you; and you gave me none tonight.

It's curious that, while I've met you only twice, on both occasions you turned up just when you were needed.

Is it a habit of yours ?" Blake laughed.
"That's a flattering thing to hint.

The man who's always on hand when he's wanted is an estimable person." He studied her with an interest which she noticed but could not resent.
The girl had changed and gained something since their first meeting, and he thought it was a knowledge of the world.

She was, he felt, neither tainted nor hardened by what she had learned, but her fresh childish look which suggested ignorance of evil had gone and could not come back.