Saint's Progress Part 2 Chapter 4

In which Leila receives Edward Pierson with warmth and sympathy, offering comfort as he struggles with the grievous loss affecting a mutual acquaintance, and reflects inwardly on the nature of love and the suppression of natural instincts. Later, as twilight falls, she meets Jimmy Fort and, moved by a mingling of past regrets and present hopes, finds herself drawn into a tender, silent embrace, feeling the swift passage of life and love.