Do you like Miss Datchet ?" These remarks indicated clearly enough that Rodney's nerves were in a state of irritation, and Denham speedily woke to the situation of the world as it had been one hour ago.

He had last seen Rodney walking with Katharine.

He could not help regretting the eagerness with which his mind returned to these interests, and fretted him with the old trivial anxieties.

He sank in his own esteem.

Reason bade him break from Rodney, who clearly tended to become confidential, before he had utterly lost touch with the problems of high philosophy.