He had known her when she lived at the Firs, he had known her in the hunting-field, but his passion was only of last summer's date.

It had sprung suddenly out of a flirtation started at a dance.
A man about town does not psychologise himself; he accepts his condition with touching simplicity.

He is hungry; he must be fed.

He is thirsty; he must drink.

Why he is hungry, when he became hungry, these inquiries are beside the mark.