Bruce had seen it since, but only Bruce.

There had actually been a sort of confidence between them--a confidence which had been like intimacy, though neither of them had been effusive.
"Mamma is so happy," the girl said.

"It is quite wonderful.

And Alix and Hilda and Millicent and Eve--oh! it makes such a difference to them.

I shall be able," with a blush which expressed a world of relieved affection, "to give them so much pleasure.