They issued from the library.
‘Which way are you going?’ Jasper inquired, with something more of the old freedom.
‘I walked from Gower Street station, and I think, as it’s so fine, I shall walk back again.’
He accompanied her. They turned up Museum Street, and Amy, after a short silence, made inquiry concerning his sisters.
‘I am sorry I saw them only once, but no doubt you thought it better to let the acquaintance end there.’
‘I really didn’t think of it in that way at all,’ Jasper replied.
‘We naturally understood it so, when you even ceased to call, yourself.’
‘But don’t you feel that there would have been a good deal of awkwardness in my coming to Mrs Yule’s?’
‘Seeing that you looked at things from my husband’s point of view?’
‘Oh, that’s a mistake! I have only seen your husband once since he went to Islington.’