He could bring, like no one else, the smile into her dark, mournful eyes.

There is no doubt that, in her way and as far as her Adrian-bound emotional temperament permitted, she felt grateful to Jaffery.

She also felt safe in his company.

He was like a great St.Bernard dog, she declared to Barbara.
These idyllic relations continued unruffled for some days, until a letter arrived from the eminent novelist to whom, with Doria's approval, Jaffery had sent the proofs.
"A marvellous story," was the great man's verdict; "singularly different from 'The Diamond Gate,' only resembling it in its largeness of conception and the perfection of its kind.

The alteration of a single word would spoil it.