He decided that it would not be wise at all.

What then?
Impossible to say.

It worried him.

He had a natural horror of any sort of scandal, and he was very fond of Hilary.
If only he knew the attitude Bianca would take up! He could not even guess it.
Thus, on that Saturday afternoon, the 4th of May, he felt for once such a positive aversion from the reading of reviews, as men will feel from their usual occupations when their nerves have been disturbed.

He stayed late at Chambers, and came straight home outside an omnibus.
The tide of life was flowing in the town.