Then his choice of life--so extraordinary, so unfortunate, I may say.

I was very much grieved.

I should have liked him to have been distinguished--or at any rate to remain in the social sphere where we could have had common interests, acquaintances, thoughts.
Don't think that I am estranged from him.

But the precise truth is that I do not know him.

I was most painfully affected when he was here by the difficulty of finding a single topic we could discuss together." While Mrs.Fyne was talking of her brother I let my thoughts wander out of the room to little Fyne who by leaving me alone with his wife had, so to speak, entrusted his domestic peace to my honour.
"Well, then, Mrs.Fyne, does it not strike you that it would be reasonable under the circumstances to let your brother take care of himself ?" "And suppose I have grounds to think that he can't take care of himself in a given instance." She hesitated in a funny, bashful manner which roused my interest.