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He had never seen Stephen look so well, or so attractive.
He had never respected her so much as when her playfulness had turned
to majestic gravity. All the boy and girl strife of the years that
had gone seemed to have passed away. The girl whom he had played
with, and bullied, and treated as frankly as though she had been a
boy, had in an instant become a woman--and such a woman as demanded
respect and admiration even from such a man.

CHAPTER XII--ON THE ROAD HOME

When Leonard Everard parted from Stephen he did so with a feeling of
dissatisfaction: firstly, with Stephen; secondly, with things in
general; thirdly, with himself. The first was definite, concrete,
and immediate; he could give himself chapter and verse for all the
girl's misdoing. Everything she had said or done had touched some
nerve painfully, or had offended his feelings; and to a man of his
temperament his feelings are very sacred things, to himself.
'Why had she put him in such a ridiculous position? That was the
worst of women.


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