And the child, also! There must be something quite exceptional about him to have won the devotion of two such opposite beings.

Especially Hilda.

It would be hard to imagine any lengths to which Hilda's blind idolatry would not lead her.
She ran down twice to Folkestone during the following week.

Her visits made her mind easier.

Mrs.Phillips seemed so placid, so contented.
There was no suggestion of suffering, either mental or physical.
She dined with the Greysons the Sunday after, and mooted the question of the coming fight with Carleton.