In all she showed the same calm candor and tenderness.

In all he showed the same humorous quaintness and good sense.

Lawrence Newt observed that these interviews were becoming longer and longer, although the affairs to arrange really became fewer.
He could not discover that there was any particular reason for it; and yet he became uncomfortable in the degree that he was conscious of it.
When the Round Table met, it was evident from the conversation between Hope Wayne and Lawrence Newt that he was very often at her house; and sometimes, whenever they all appeared to be conscious that each one was thinking of that fact, the cloud of constraint settled more heavily, but just as impalpably as before, over the little circle.

It was not removed by the conviction which Amy Waring and Arthur Merlin entertained, that at all such times Hope Wayne was trying not to show that she was peculiarly excited by this consciousness.
And she was excited by it.

She knew that the interviews were longer and longer, and that there was less reason than ever for any interviews whatsoever.