AT THE DANCE Audrey saw no more of Phil Turner for some days.

She did not enjoy much of her husband's society, either.

He appeared to be too busy to think of her, and she in consequence spent most of her time with Mrs.Raleigh.
But Phil, who had been one of the latter's most constant visitors, did not show himself there.
It did not occur to Audrey that he absented himself on her account, and she was disappointed not to meet him.

Next perhaps to the surgeon's wife, she had begun to regard him as her greatest friend.

Certainly the tie of obligation that bound them together was one that seemed to warrant an intimate friendship.