For the first time he had seen and recognised the imperishable thing in a woman's face.
He reached at last one of the large, somewhat gloomy squares in the district between St.Pancras and New Oxford street, and paused before one of the most remote houses situated at the extreme northeast corner.
He opened the front door with a latch-key and passed across a large but simply furnished hall into his study.

He entered a little abstractedly, and it was not until he had closed the door behind him that he realised the presence of another person in the room.

At his entrance she had risen to her feet.
"At last!" she exclaimed.

"At last you have come!" There was a silence, prolonged, curious, in a sense thrilling.

A girl of wonderful appearance had risen to her feet and was looking eagerly towards him.