As the Heart Grows Older Bonner's eagerness to begin probing into the mystery grew as his strength came back to him.

He volunteered to interest his uncle in the matter, and through him to begin a systematic effort to unravel the tangled ends of Rosalie's life.

Money was not to be spared; time and intelligence were to be devoted to the cause.

He knew that Rosalie was in reality a creature of good birth and worthy of the name that any man might seek to bestow upon her--a name given in love by a man to the woman who would share it with him forever.
The days and nights were teaching him the sacredness of a growing attachment.

He was not closing his eyes to the truth.