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Many a woman before Janetta has found reasons of this kind suffice for love of a man . Certainly , in Janetta 's case , they formed the basis of a good deal of interest . She told herself that she could not help thinking of him . He came very often , on pretext of bringing or of fetching Julian -- especially on the days when Julian stayed until four o'clock , for then he would stray in and sit down to chat with Janetta and her mother until it was sheer incivility not to offer him a cup of tea . Softened by the pleasures of hospitality , Mrs. Colwyn would be quite gracious to him at these times . But now and then she left him to be entertained by Janetta , saying rather sharply that she did not care to meet the man who chose to behave `` so brutally to her darling Nora . '' So that Janetta got into the way of sitting with him , talking with him on all subjects , of giving him her sage advice when he asked for it , and listening with interest to the stories that he told her of his past life .