"Admirable must he be who can impress discerning women, his life-long housemates, so favourably. He is, I repeat, a perfect host."
"He will be a perfect husband."
"In all probability."
"It is a certainty. Let him be loved and obeyed, he will be guided. That is the secret for her whom he so fatally loves. That, if we had dared, we would have hinted to her. She will rule him through her love of him, and through him all about her. And it will not be a rule he submits to, but a love he accepts. If she could see it!"
"If she were a metaphysician!" sighed Dr. Middleton.
"—But a sensitiveness so keen as his might—"
"—Fretted by an unsympathizing mate—"
"—In the end become, for the best of us is mortal—"
"—Callous!"
"—He would feel perhaps as much—"