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Those who strove, or seemed likely
to strive to interrupt him in his work, he pushed out of his life.
Even if they were charming women he got rid of them. And the fact that
he did so proved to him, and not improbably to them, that he was more
wrapped up in the gratification of the mind than in the gratification
of the heart, or of the body. It was not that the charm of charming
women had ceased to please him, but it seemed to have ceased really to
fascinate him.
Long ago, before Hermione married, he had felt for her a warm and
intimate friendship. He had even been jealous of Maurice. Without
being at all in love, he had cared enough for Hermione to be jealous.
Before her marriage he had looked forward in imagination down a vista
of long years, and had seen her with a husband, then with children,
always more definitely separated from himself.
And he had seen himself exceptionally alone, even almost miserably
alone.
Then fate had spun tragedy into her web. He had nearly died in Africa,
and had been nursed back to life by this friend of whom he had been
jealous.


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