"And he has never married," added Gladys.
"No," said Lady Denholme, "but there have been many practical difficulties in the way of his doing so. He has had a most absorbingly busy life, and now that he is more at leisure he feels himself too old to form new ties."
"But," persisted Nina, "if he had had any idea at the time that Maud cared for him so?"
"Ah well," Lady Denholme allowed, "in that case, in spite of the practical difficulties, things would probably have been different."
And again Nina repeated softly, "Poor Maud!"
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Transcriber's Note In a very few cases, missing punctuation has been added. One change wasmade and can be identified in the body of the text by agrey dotted underline: | |
| I am not at all sure that I should not have went out of mymind in such a case. | I am not at all sure that I should not have gone out of mymind in such a case. |