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He only saw a light slender figure, but when she came back into the
sitting-room Mr. Rathbone-Sanders noted the faint flush in her cheek
and an unwonted abstraction in her eye.
And in the evening she tucked her feet up in the armchair by the
lamp and read the REPUBLIC very intently and very thoughtfully,
occasionally turning over a page.

5

When Benham got back to London he experienced an unwonted desire to
perform his social obligations to the utmost.
So soon as he had had some dinner at his club he wrote his South
Harting friends a most agreeable letter of thanks for their kindness
to him. In a little while he hoped he should see them again. His
mother, too, was most desirous to meet them. . . . That done, he
went on to his flat and to various aspects of life for which he was
quite unprepared.
But here we may note that Amanda answered him. Her reply came some
four days later. It was written in a square schoolgirl hand, it
covered three sheets of notepaper, and it was a very intelligent
essay upon the REPUBLIC of Plato.


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