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The Thesigers lived to be grateful to me for reconciling them to Jevons, / if it was I who reconciled them. I don't think Mrs. Thesiger ever really / forgave him, ever really liked him till the end; but the Canon very soon / owned to a surreptitious regard for him. Luckily he acquired it while / Jevons was still struggling, otherwise I do not think I could have saved / their faces.
In the first year of his marriage Jevons made them see how right I was / when I told them it would be impossible to ignore him. In the second year / they saw that he had only just given them time to come round before it / was too late. The minute he became prosperous it would have been too / late, much too late for their dignity and beauty. And yet they couldn't / very well have gone on repudiating Viola for ever. A year would have seen / them through that attitude. And Jevons's great _coup_ had come off in / the year he "gave" it; so that if they had been left to themselves their / revulsion of tenderness must have coincided with his prosperity. They / would have had every appearance of having surrendered to his income.