He had first noticed her about the corridors of the British Museum, where he read constantly.

Her being there so often had made him feel that he would like to know her, and as she was not an inaccessible person, an introduction was not difficult.

The preliminaries once over, they came to depend a great deal upon each other, and Wilson, after his day's reading, often went round to Bedford Square for his tea.

They had much more in common than their memories of a common friend.

Indeed, they seldom spoke of him.