Good-night, governor." Vandover used to call on Turner Ravis about twice a week; people said they were engaged.

This was not so.
Vandover had met Miss Ravis some two years before.

For a time the two had been sincerely in love with each other, and though there was never any talk of marriage between them, they seemed to have some sort of tacit understanding.

But by this time Vandover had somehow outgrown the idea of marrying Turner.

He still kept up the fiction, persuaded that Turner must understand the way things had come to be.