He had certainly declared, in a fit of enthusiasm, that he loved her, but he had not asked if she loved him.

He had seen her since, but although they were very good friends, nothing more exciting had passed between them.

Peter was conscious that when he was with Julie she fascinated him, but that when he was away--ah! that was it, when he was away?
It certainly was not that Hilda came back and took her place; it was rather that the other things in his mind dominated him.

It was a curious state of affairs.

He was less like an orthodox parson than he had ever been, and yet he had never thought so much about religion.