He had consulted his wife and so that was all right.

The girl would get a welcome in his home.

His home most likely was not what she had been used to but, etc.

etc.
All the time Fyne felt subtly in that man's manner a derisive disapproval of everything that was not lower middle class, a profound respect for money, a mean sort of contempt for speculators that fail, and a conceited satisfaction with his own respectable vulgarity.
With Mrs.Fyne the manner of the obscure cousin of de Barral was but little less offensive.

He looked at her rather slyly but her cold, decided demeanour impressed him.