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Hermia saw a great deal of Quintard. They walked together, they rode together, and circumstances frequently forced them into each other's society for hours at a time. She liked him more with every interview, but she did not feel a throb of love for him. The snow on her nature's volcano was deep as the ashes which buried Pompeii.
He had many opportunities to put his wearing qualities to the test. Once they met at a fashionable winter rendezvous in the country. The other women were of the Helen Simms type; the rest of the men belonged to the Winston brotherhood. For the greater part of four days Hermia and Quintard devoted themselves exclusively to each other. When they were not riding across the country or rambling through the windy woods, they sat in the library and told stories by the fire.