It did one good to see these two magnificent creatures sporting together for the child's, and incidentally their own, amusement.

For the first time during their intercourse they met on the same plane.
"She's really quite a good sort," said Jaffery.
But if it was pleasant to see him with Liosha, it was still more touching to watch his protective attitude towards Doria.

He seemed so anxious to do her service, so deferential to her views, so puzzle-headedly eager to reconcile them with his own.

She took upon herself to read him little lectures.
"Don't you think you're rather wasting your life ?" she asked him one day.
"Do you think I am ?" "Yes." "Oh! But I work hard at my job, you know," he said apologetically--"when there's one for me to do.

And when there isn't I kind of prepare myself for the next.