Never did the simplicity and sincerity of their welcome fail; the cordiality which greeted him was always his; he felt that it was intended that he should be at home there just as much as he cared to be.
The six working days of the week, however, were as a rule too full both for the Falbes and for Michael to do more than have, apart from the music lessons, flying glimpses of each other; for the day was taken up with work, concerts and opera occurred often in the evening, and the shuttles of London took their threads in divergent directions.

But on Sunday the house at Maidstone Crescent ceased, as Hermann said, to be a junction, and became a temporary terminus.
"We burst from our chrysalis, in fact," he said.

"If you find it clearer to understand this way, we burst from our chrysalis and become a caterpillar.

Do chrysalides become caterpillars! We do, anyhow.

If you come about eight you will find food; if you come later you will also find food of a sketchier kind.