For most of the time, he kept, as was usual with
him, in company and in conversation with his own sex.
I could not but pity Delia Floyd. It was plain to me that she was
waking up to the sad error she had committed--an error, the
consequences of which would go with her through life. Very, very far
was she from being indifferent to Wallingford--that I could plainly
see.
During the winter, Ralph came up frequently from New York to visit
his bride to be. As he was the nephew of Judge Bigelow, he and
Wallingford were, as a thing of course, thrown often together during
these visits. It can hardly excite wonder, that Wallingford
maintained a reserved and distant demeanor towards the young man,
steadily repelling all familiarity, yet always treating him with
such politeness and respect that no cause of offence could appear.
On the part of Dewey, it may be said that he saw little in the grave
plodder among dusty law books and discolored parchments, that won
upon his regard. He looked upon him as a young man good enough in
his way--a very small way, in his estimation--good enough for S----,
and small enough for a country town lawyer.
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