It is one harder for me to ask than for you to answer.

Would a friend of Harry Feversham be at all disloyal to that friendship, if"-- and Durrance flushed beneath his sunburn--"if he tried his luck with Miss Eustace ?" The question startled Lieutenant Sutch.
"You ?" he exclaimed, and he stood considering Durrance, remembering the rapidity of his promotion, speculating upon his likelihood to take a woman's fancy.

Here was an aspect of the case, indeed, to which he had not given a thought, and he was no less troubled than startled.

For there had grown up within him a jealousy on behalf of Harry Feversham as strong as a mother's for a favourite second son.

He had nursed with a most pleasurable anticipation a hope that, in the end, Harry would come back to all that he once had owned, like a rethroned king.