“You used to grow a full beard once, didn’t you?” he asked.
“Yes,” said Darius.
That made the situation less cruel.
Volume Three--Chapter Eight.
A Change of Mind.
One evening, a year later, in earliest summer of 1887, Edwin and Mr Osmond Orgreave were walking home together from Hanbridge. When they reached the corner of the street leading to Lane End House, Osmond Orgreave said, stopping—
“Now you’ll come with us?” And he looked Edwin hard in the eyes, and there was a most flattering appeal in his voice. It was some time since their eyes had met frankly, for Edwin had recently been having experience of Mr Orgreave’s methods in financial controversy, and it had not been agreeable.
After an instant Edwin said heartily—