She felt that after what he had said they could never stand in quite the same relation as before.
Accustomed as Frank was to read her thoughts, he was not deceived by the expression of regret that she should now see but little of him, as he saw the news was really pleasant to her.

She was not aware that it was a conversation that he had had the evening before with Colonel Severn, which had decided him to go down to the Osprey a fortnight earlier than he had intended.
"You are getting to be almost as regular an attendant here, Mallett, as I am.

I think you are altogether too young to take regularly to club life.

It is all very well for an old fogey like me, but I don't think it a good thing for a young fellow like you to take so early to a bachelor life." "I don't want to do anything of the sort, Colonel.

But I can't stand these crushes in hot rooms; I cannot for the life of me see where the pleasure comes in.