He felt himself on Mr.Lewis Haystoun's level at last, and the baffling sense of being on a different plane, which he had always experienced in his company, was gone, he hoped, for ever.

So he became frank and confidential, forgot the pomp of his talk and his inevitable principles, and assisted in laying lunch.
Lady Manorwater drove her nephew into a corner.
"Where have you been.

Lewis, all these days?
If you had been anybody else, I should have said you were sulking.

I must speak to you seriously.

Do you know that Alice has been breaking her heart for you?
I won't have the poor child made miserable, and though I don't in the least want you to marry her, yet; I cannot have you playing with her." Lewis had grown suddenly very red.
"I think you are mistaken," he said stiffly.