And in all the minor arrangements of business she found in him the same skill and knowledge, combined with a womanly reserve and softness, which had first so strongly attracted her.
Yet his visits as financial counsel, as he called himself, did not destroy, they only heightened, the pleasure of the meetings of the Round Table.

For the group of friends still met.

They talked of poetry still.
They talked of many things, and perhaps thought of but a few.

The pleasure to all of them was evident enough; but it seemed more perplexed than formerly.

Hope Wayne felt it.