"No. He has been remarkably civil. I must say she has given Gideon far more encouragement. Septimus told me she had never met him before Canaan House."

"I believe he has conceded the field, but since we are confined together, he holds himself to being chivalrous and sentimental." Harrow drawls the word 'sentimental' with a lot of contempt for someone so obviously bitter about the first part.