[The Helpmate by May Sinclair]@TWC D-Link bookThe Helpmate CHAPTER VII 3/17
He must give them up. She judged that he was prepared for so much renunciation.
She hoped that he would, in time, adopt her friends in place of them.
He was inclined, after all, to respond amicably to Mrs.Eliott's overtures. Anne wondered how he would comport himself at the dinner on the fifteenth.
She owned to a little uneasiness at the prospect.
Would he indeed yield to the sobering influence of Thurston Square? Or would he try to impose his alien, his startling personality on it? She had begun to realise how alien he was, how startling he could be.
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