It was to Mrs.Nevill Tyson's eternal credit that she made no claims.

Clearly, when a tie can be broken to-morrow, there is no urgent necessity for breaking it to-day.
So in the afternoon Stanistreet called again at Ridgmount Gardens.
Whether or no Mrs.Nevill Tyson ignored the possibility of passion, she had the largest ideas of the scope and significance of friendship.

She made no claims, but she exacted from Louis a multitude of small services for which he was held to be sufficiently repaid in smiles.

Whether she knew it or not, she had grown dependent on him.

She had always shown an affecting confidence in the integrity of masculine judgment, and she consulted him about her dividends and the pattern of her gowns with equally guileless reliance.
To-day he found her in a state of agitated perplexity.