Percy backed her up in her wish to go on living at the Hall, and suggested it would be better for her relations to come and live with her. He argued it was wisest Elaine should resolutely face her grief and get it over in its sad surroundings, rather than come back later on and have to fight the battle all over again.
He had made a great impression upon the family and ultimately they had followed his advice. So he had kept Elaine with him and gradually, only very gradually, had let her come to realise what his intentions were.
His courtship of her was, however, a hard one. She was very grateful to him for his kindness and admired and liked him very much, but for a long, long time the memory of her husband, to whom she had been passionately devoted, forbade the very thought of ever caring
