This definite and final understanding having been reached, it was but natural that this liaison should proceed to a closer and closer relationship.

Despite her religious upbringing, Aileen was decidedly a victim of her temperament.

Current religious feeling and belief could not control her.

For the past nine or ten years there had been slowly forming in her mind a notion of what her lover should be like.

He should be strong, handsome, direct, successful, with clear eyes, a ruddy glow of health, and a certain native understanding and sympathy--a love of life which matched her own.